On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:54, Peter Nunn wrote:
Hi Tom,
yes, I'm unmounting it (or there probably wouldn't be any data on it either :) and then taking it off the system.
There is an entry in /etc/fstab that comes and goes each time its plugged in, but the device still increments for some reason (don't even know where its keeping track of what it was last time if its not in fstab?
Have you looked in /etc/mtab to make sure it's being removed correctly when unmounted? And at the info in /proc/bus/usb? Leaving the mountpoint behind should be no problem - my digicam (which works as a USB mass storage device, like your 'disk') leaves the mountpoint behind permanently. In fact, I'd expect it to so that if you try to access it without mounting it you get an empty directory rather than an error. Dylan -- "Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not, we are Between the wars"