SDHC card unmount issue on eeePC

[Les Gray]

Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 21:01 +1100 schrieb Les Gray:
> I have eeeXubuntu installed to the 4GB solid state drive on my eeePC,
> with /home and swap on a 4GB SDHC card, which is referenced
> in /etc/fstab.

I've decided to resolve this issue by -

1. Moving /home to the eeePC's internal drive

2. Having a 3.5GB FAT32 partition and a 500MB swap partition on the
SDHC.

3. Setting /etc/fstab to not automount the FAT32 partition
(rw,user,noauto)

This is probably better anyway, given that I will need to use some of my
data on Windows systems.

Still, if anyone has a solution to the problem below, I'd be glad to
know...



> The trouble is that when I restart/shutdown the SDHC card doesn't get
> unmounted cleanly, as reported by fsck during the startup messages.
> 
> I've tried adding 'umount /dev/sdb1' to both /etc/init.d/umountfs
> and /etc/default/halt, without success. I also tried turning /home into
> a symlink to the SDHC card, mounted as /media/sdhc in /etc/fstab, also
> without success.
> 
> Does anyone know how to solve this problem, while still having the SDHC
> card remain permanently in its slot?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>