From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Aug 28 20:17:59 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1B69C5C88 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:17:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrisstankevitz@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x236.google.com (mail-ig0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 33A5815B3 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:17:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrisstankevitz@gmail.com) Received: by igui7 with SMTP id i7so24032761igu.1 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:17:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ONDy9+pj6b2g4GLsqE6yg57ayONMUApHVnRYmrhEJuE=; b=nL2jznNR8yNX0KTYWZOEeAkCZQqZblAV1NOTNQ5gHWInSU99ctr4EcFONRDQvemMlC sBvXg9XCHbZ3/YiSqXUOMSqnQ1skjywIUhX/NJ8KGq5FiJKa47pLIEvb7c37CrxzRizE WiKnaJ6i8rD7jEytqUiGnOjFzf0UC8Ifi0jTd5YHN9yPXj+jW0I7jD/cfW2N2+awJRkh 10fZUrsQAwPY4otpgAsfdRR7se+nBajaZwgofrPKmBID9A3RlxEbFlkUzRiXH7tBq40e jwlKTxVcZ5teJgkpp/XR4bwu40VvZEAwHiG5y5zb+XhaQiUUgvS2X+3TQ7XveeNwAjZq P4Qw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.57.84 with SMTP id g20mr5130793igq.18.1440793078480; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:17:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.79.107.151 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:17:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150828000602.b9a288a8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20150824214252.53aa04c6.freebsd@edvax.de> <55DEF869.1010202@sneakertech.com> <55DEFB5A.3080408@FreeBSD.org> <55DEFC74.3040609@sneakertech.com> <20150828000602.b9a288a8.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:17:58 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Stop using a SATA drive From: Chris Stankevitz To: Polytropon Cc: Quartz , freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 20:17:59 -0000 On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Polytropon wrote: > But on the other hand, what's wrong with _ignoring_ a > device file you don't want to have anything to do with? >From my OP: > I imagine I would feel confident that nothing is using it > if the drive disappeared from /dev My only interest in the device file going away was that I would suddenly become confident that it is not in use (e.g. by smartd, gpart, etc). If there is another way to become confident that a device is not in use then that would be okay too. "Device file disappearing" would only be useful to me if it happened before the drive was "ejected", not after. Chris