From: Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@ncsu.edu>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>,
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:56:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E1AD0A.3080006@ncsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D0AB7B.1080709@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Sorry to have left this dormant for so long.
Running eject in either of the ways suggested still leaves the light on
my particular key turned on.
Stefan Richter wrote:
> Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>
>> I might imagine how windows turns the LED off on
>> unmount. Try "eject /dev/sdX", where sdX is your USB storage, after you
>> unmount it. Be careful, especially if you have SATA (or SCSI) discs in
>> your system or if you use libata for PATA discs not to eject the wrong
>> one...
>>
>
> If there is only one USB disk connected:
> # eject /dev/disk/by-path/*usb*:0
>
> Provided you let udev create links for you. BTW, the /dev/disk/by-id/
> symlinks are nice for static mount points in /etc/fstab.
>
> After a disk was mounted, eject also accepts the mountpoint as parameter
> and will unmount the disk before it tries to eject it.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-07 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-24 20:58 USB Key light on/off state depending on mount Casey Dahlin
2007-08-24 21:13 ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-25 19:26 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-08-25 22:21 ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-07 19:56 ` Casey Dahlin [this message]
2007-08-26 10:10 ` Xavier Bestel
[not found] <fa.BwCgwGvTNIOD+KEeBrvP11xCEmw@ifi.uio.no>
2007-08-24 23:19 ` Robert Hancock
2007-08-25 10:49 ` James Bruce
2007-08-25 11:58 ` Éric Piel
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