FC3 hotplugging philosophy 3089
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:48:36 GMT, Jim Haynes staggered into the Black Sun and said:
hotplug is controlled by scripts inetc-hotplug, so look there for the gritty details. I don't use hotplug, since I'm perfectly capable of modprobing things by hand if necessary. What's supposed to happen is that a new device is plugged in to the USB-PCI-whatever bus, and the hotplug scripts detect this. These scripts query the device's PCI-USB-whatever ID, then load the appropriate kernel module for that ID if it isn't already loaded. Then the scripts may take other appropriate actions, possibly mounting a USB storage device onmnt-somewhere, for example.
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:05:52 GMT, Jim Haynes staggered into the Black Sun and said: ? Philosophy may bear little relation to...
I don't know what Fedora has done to their hotplug scripts; they may have some silly automount thing set up. I would advise against automounting devices, because attempting to mount a USB storage device with a mangled parbreastion table can cause the whole system to respond very slowly.
umount the device if it was mounted, wait for umount to finish, then unplug the device.
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