Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:56:58 -0400 | From | Casey Dahlin <> | Subject | Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount |
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Sorry to have left this dormant for so long.
Running eject in either of the ways suggested still leaves the light on my particular key turned on.
Stefan Richter wrote: > Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > >> I might imagine how windows turns the LED off on >> unmount. Try "eject /dev/sdX", where sdX is your USB storage, after you >> unmount it. Be careful, especially if you have SATA (or SCSI) discs in >> your system or if you use libata for PATA discs not to eject the wrong >> one... >> > > If there is only one USB disk connected: > # eject /dev/disk/by-path/*usb*:0 > > Provided you let udev create links for you. BTW, the /dev/disk/by-id/ > symlinks are nice for static mount points in /etc/fstab. > > After a disk was mounted, eject also accepts the mountpoint as parameter > and will unmount the disk before it tries to eject it. >
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