I have usb devices that I mount into the system by placing the item
into my /etc/fstab file.

Then I mount the drive and look at the files or pictures within it with kde4 (slackware-current), possibly gwenview or whatever file viewer I have there.

Then I want to take the usb drive out, and type

and the computer tells me the drive is busy, and to check lsof. So I

lsof | grep /mnt/usb

and find out that gam_server has taken control of my /mnt/usb directory, and I can no longer unmount my drive manually. I then

and kill the gam_server so I can manually unmount my usb drive. I shouldn't need to do this.

There are two solutions I can see about:

Not using any KDE program to browse the directory

or

Somehow turning the gam_server off (Whatever the gam_server is)

What can anyone tell me about the gam_server?

Maybe this can help:

http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html

Is it even necessary, in your situation, to use fstab? I think hal would handle something like a usb drive. This is probably not related to your gam_server issue; just pointing it out.

It took me a little bit of time before I realized hal was working as intended and I was doing a lot of unnecessary work.

Regards,
Jacob

hal creates the device node /dev/sdb1 which contains the filesystem. But it doesn't know how or where to actually connect the filesystem to my root. (Maybe I could look into that). But more importantly, it CANNOT know that it needs to unmount my filesystem just before I take out the usb drive without me telling it that I would like it to do so. I MUST issue a command of some sort to unmount it, and the fstab/mount/unmount command seems easiest to me. I just type 'umount /mnt/usb' (When it works of course).


And thanks for the link, I'll see if a configuration file will help me on this.

[edit] or maybe that's udev (not hal) I'm a bit unsure of the difference really [/edit]

I created a file /etc/gamin/gaminrc

and in it I placed the commands

to overwrite the default of /mnt and /media (/mnt/local* doesn't correspond to any actual directory)

just merely writing the file with

did not overwrite the default.

AND > > >

It was successful, and I was able to open kde up in the /mnt/usb directory, close down kde and unmount the usb drive using the simple 'umount /mnt/usb' command. Thanks

^^ Great ^^