unmounting a filesystem safely that doesn't exist anymore

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

Björn König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I did a mistake: I unplugged my digital camera accidentally before I unmounted the 
> filesystem. *doh* This happens very often, because I'm very scatterbrained. =) The kernel 
> will panic and all filesystems remain unclean in any case now. I know that this is a well 
> know issue and in past discussions you stated that this behaviour is intended and won't be 
> changed ad hoc. I just want to know if somebody knows a workaround or small trick that 
> prevents the other filesystems from being unclean on next boot-up.

You might give the automounter (am-utils) a whirl. They are very
confusing to set up, but you can set the unmount-if-unused timeout to
something like 5 seconds. This could narrow the window enough to not
panic you system frequently :)

Ulrich Spoerlein
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