Fatal trap 12 if you unmount detached umass device

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Björn König wrote:

> Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>
>> 1. Don't do that
>
> It concerns not only USB drives, but any kind of removable media, even floppy 
> disks. A lot of people tend to remove floppy disks without unmounting the 
> filesystem before and I think it's unacceptable to let users reboot their 
> machine if they did this mistake.

You won't hear any arguments from anyone on this one. The itch is there 
for someone to scratch...

>> (If you're going to do it, try umount -f).
>
> ... which causes the death of a machine if you do this twice.

Right.

> I prepared myself to step into the source code next month to eliminate this 
> annoying behaviour.

I would gladly do so myself, if I had the time. Alas, I am currently 
involved in a number of projects which are chewing up all of my time... :(

Regards,
Andy

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