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List:       fedora-desktop-list
Subject:    Re: How to remove some mounted partition icons?
From:       Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora () filteredperception ! org>
Date:       2008-01-08 3:46:24
Message-ID: 4782F210.8060406 () filteredperception ! org
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Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008 4:28 PM, Douglas McClendon
> <dmc.fedora@filteredperception.org> wrote:
>> I had been happily just yanking usbsticks for a long time, though just
>> the other day I did manage to corrupt a vfat fs on one pretty badly.
> 
> But would you ever want to yank a  terabyte sized usb "stick" like
> Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo 1TB External Drive?

Absolutely, if I trusted that the kernel code was smart enough to never 
result in a corrupted filesystem.

I mean, as far as a user experience goes, manual unmounting is one of 
the biggest hassles around.

I know I'm just stating the obvious, and nothing you don't know, but 
clearly the lack of an external-media-user-interface as robust and easy 
as MS-windows-3.1 floppy disk interface, has been a serious hinderance 
to linux's widespread adoption.

Maybe someone knowledgable can fill me in- but is there any reason why 
currently you *can't*(or shouldn't) yank a terabyte external ext3fs usb 
2.0 drive?  Obviously I wouldn't do it in an enterprise situation until 
such a practice was widely accepted in the official documentation for a 
couple years.  But it certainly seems like it should be doable with 
journaled filesystems, and a data volume which you know that you have 
finished all commands writing to it, for say 3X the the maximum amount 
of time you know the system would let it have uncommitted writes.

-dmc

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