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Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:

>On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:16:38PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
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>>What is the expected behavour when umounting USB drives which have 
>>already been unplugged? :)
>>I'm sure I'm not the only one who often forgets to umount these thingies 
>>when leaving the site I'm working at the moment, so it should probably 
>>be something other than what I always encounter (BETA5):
>>
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><snip> 
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>
>>Any ideas how to solve or circumevent these problems? (Aside from "don't 
>>do that").
>>    
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>
>I'm using mtools (and mtoolsfm as a graphical frontend) for accessing
>my USB memory stick. This does not require mounting the device.
>A disadvantage is that this only works for devices with a FAT filesystem.
>
>  
>
A nice feature of kde is (I wasn't aware of this until recently) is that 
it can use mtools transparantly in konqueror, just specify

  floppy:/<driveletter>

as the url, where drive letter is the one that you would use with 
mtools. Possibly the gnome file manager can do something similar.

cheers,
Marc.