From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev and dev.d scripts
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:55:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1109339701.7242.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1109278659.10222.11.camel@X40.blinkeye.ch>
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 21:57 +0100, BlinkEye wrote:
>hello,
>
>(i still don't know how to subscribe to this list so please mail back
>directly. thanks!).
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel
>i wrote a (bash) script which is being executed as soon as i plug in my
>external usb harddisk. the problem is that this script is executed AGAIN
>when i unplug the harddisk. how may i prevent that from happening?
Check for the ACTION in the environment.
>another question i do have is one i couldn't answer with manuals i've
>read: obviously i don't need to actually mount a device to cp files on
>it with udev anymore - first i don't see how this is possible
udev has nothing to do with storage access, it just creates the device
node for you. How would you access the filesystem without mounting it?!
> and second
>i'm not sure how i should umount the usb device - simply unplug it? is
>this safe?
No, it isn't safe. But you may mount the volume with the "sync" option
and it may not happen something bad if you just remove the device.
Kay
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2005-02-24 20:57 udev and dev.d scripts BlinkEye
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