From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 18:10:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CEA037B422 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilith.gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA23123; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 03:10:47 +0200 (MEST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000824030814.00a96e60@imap.rz.uni-ulm.de> X-Sender: siegbert.baude@student.uni-ulm.de@imap.rz.uni-ulm.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 03:10:41 +0200 To: Alfred Perlstein From: Siegbert Baude Subject: Re: Auto Un-Mounting of Removables???? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000823125341.D4854@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, > > According to all the info on mounting a removable drive (mostly CD's) > > one must un mount the drive before ejecting the cd to not cause > > problems. How about a patch to allow the detection of the pressing of > > the drives eject button and auto un-mount the media something like the > > feature that adaptec (HP) has for their windows CD-RW software?? > >Sure I'll apply it, do you have a URL to the patch? On my Linux Mandrake there came a tool along called supermount, which does= =20 the reverse. It automatically mounts the drive for each access and then=20 detaches it again. Works for Floppies and CDs. Isn=B4t there something like= =20 automount for NFS also? Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message