[Linux-disciples] usb drives

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Karl Sokol wrote:
> Yes, I am manually adding lines to the fstab.  And yes, Ann and I both
> have a habit of just yanking the thing out without unmounting and all
> that.  If unmounted, it usually does reset (the only exception is I
> have a universal card reader that uses 6 mount points when plugged in
> and is sometimes quirky when each point is unmounted ).
> So, we will work on taking the 3 seconds needed to unmount the drives.

There are also various automatic mount/unmounting systems. I haven't kept up
with exactly what works best, still being a command-line umount man myself,
but my impression from recent Ubuntu releases is that you should be able to
just insert and yank USB storage devices with abandon. If you're not using
the most recent Ubuntu but an older version or another distribution, you
could still get the packages that manage automounting and that should do the
trick.