Re: Simple usage question

From: Stefan Richter <stefanr_at_s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date: Thu 16 Dec 2004 - 23:33:56 CET
Message-ID: <41C20D54.9000805@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

Adam Lang wrote:
> 1) I want to plug in the hard drive, but not have it mount

No problem. There will be nothing mounted automatically except if there
are hotplug scripts set up to do so (/etc/hotplug/).

> Yes, I know, ext3 is journalled and 100% safe and blah blah blah.

Perhaps quite close to 100% if data journalling is enabled but...

> Call me old-fashioned, I don't like removing file systems without
> unmounting them.)

... I would still care to unmount it, too.

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