Hotplug?

[Mathias Haas]

A just question! :-)

Well, let's say that my users have really no idea about what Unix is...  
(and I'm not at their office every day.)
What this will be for is to make a backup every day on the external 
firewire disk and then take the disk home in case of burglary or fire. 
Very much like a tape backup but 20 times cheaper if you have a lot of 
data. In Linux (2.4.x kernel) and Windows it's possible to simply 
disconnect the drive and put it in a bag. I wanted to know if this is 
possible in FreeBSD as well.

I suppose I could simply put a umount command after the backup is done 
as well. But it would be more "modern" to simply disconnect it if you 
know what I mean.


>Mathias,
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>why would you remove the drive before umounting it?
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>Marc
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