Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:24:29 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Cc: Yuriy Tsibizov <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fatal trap 12 if you unmount detached umass device Message-ID: <42C970CD.9070905@cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20050703124901.M80892@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> References: <20050703112108.F474@free.home.local> <20050703124901.M80892@lexi.siliconlandmark.com>
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Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > 1. Don't do that It concerns not only USB drives, but any kind of removable media, even floppy disks. A lot of people tend to remove floppy disks without unmounting the filesystem before and I think it's unacceptable to let users reboot their machine if they did this mistake. > (If you're going to do it, try umount -f). ... which causes the death of a machine if you do this twice. I prepared myself to step into the source code next month to eliminate this annoying behaviour. Regards Björn
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