[ale] USB pen drive killed?

[Pete Hardie]

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2003 09:27 am, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> 
>>I have done some "bad" things to my pen drive.  I went back to windows and
>>reformatted the pen drive.  One "bad" thing you can do is pull the pen from
>>the linux box without unmounting  the drive.  I have had mandrake 9.0
>>completely crash.  I had to reimage the box.  It never did recover.
> 
> 
> If you are using mandrake, you should make the pendrive use supermount--then 
> you should be able to put it in and pull it out with impunity.  Just look in 
> /etc/fstab for how the cdrom is set up, then imitate it for your pen drive.  
> Never use mount/umount again!

Sounds cool.  Does RH have anything similar?  I've looked into hotplug, but it 
was heavy slogging for that documentation, and I never found anything that 
looked like a step-by-step list of procedures - just a lot of references to USB 
vendor data.


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