Hi Benjamin, Excerpts from Benjamin Sambale's message of Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:08 +0200:
Am 07.10.2010 17:32, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
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. Automatic umounting is neither intended nor safe. The reason is obvious: To guarantee data consistency and proper functionality of
Am 07.10.2010 17:18, schrieb Benjamin Sambale: the operating system, the file system has to be removed _before_ the underlying device is. This obviously cannot happen automatically.
Thanks for the reply. I know that unplugging the stick before umounting is kind of "unsafe". However, I never had problems with this and of course I do not unplug while files are get written. By the way the udev page on archwiki also suggests umounting in a udev rule. Finally, as I wrote before everything works if I close thunar before. And using hal it works in all cases anyway. So, I'm still grateful for further hints.
Thunar depends on HAL, so probably it is not correct to use it without HAL, and the following is from http://thunar.xfce.org "Use the correct HAL property to determine whether a given volume or device requires eject" Cheers, Sergey