On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Benjamin Sambale <bsamb...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Dear arch users,
>
> I managed to mount my usb stick automatically via udev rules (hal isn't
> running). However, if > I unplug the stick while thunar is open, the umount
> command hangs. After that I can't
> even reboot. But if I close thunar before unplugging the stick umount works
> fine.
> Here is my udev rule:
>
> SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="07A10809D5B952B9", KERNEL=="sd*",
> SYMLINK+="unistick%n"
> SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="07A10809D5B952B9", KERNEL=="sd*",
> ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/bin/sudo -u benjamin /bin/mount /media/unistick"
> SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="07A10809D5B952B9", KERNEL=="sd*",
> ACTION=="remove", RUN+="umount /media/unistick"
>
> And here is the corresponding line of fstab:
>
> /dev/unistick1 /media/unistick vfat rw,noauto,user,utf8,noatime 0
> 0
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Benjamin
you could maybe look into autofs, since it can automatically unmount
the device after a period of inactivity, and automatically remount
when activity starts again.
C Anthony
