USB drive unmount

Richard Doyle rdoyle at islandnetworks.com
Tue Aug 7 16:34:20 BST 2007


On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 09:28 -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:47:46AM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps this is too difficult, I'm unsure how the thin client magic device
> > stuff works.
> 
> Because LTSP mounts aren't HAL aware yet, there's no real way to make an
> unmount appear on the menu.  So that's one issue.
> 
> The other one is, we've been consistently told by users that they HATE having
> to manually eject USB devices, and they feel NOT having to do it with thin
> clients is a huge bonus.
> 
> I think Linux should work that you don't need to unmount either.  Users
> NATURALLY just want to yank the stick when they're done: it's logical
> human nature. 
Fair enough. Now I just need to figure out how to get high school
students to wait until the device is done...


> 
> Scott
> 
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