suse removable media

[jsusanka]

hey - using suse 10 I have discovered that when you put in a usb stick you do not have to umount it when you remove it. I have done this several times and it seems to work fine.

also when I have a cdrom in the drive I can just hit the eject button on the drive and the cdrom comes out without any umounting.

when I try to umount the usbstick or cdrom I get you have to be root error message. I have looked through the docs - but I must be missing something. but I assume this is the way it is designed. anybody else have any experience good or bad with this?

kudos to suse.

[Tsuroerusu]

hey - using suse 10 I have discovered that when you put in a usb stick you do not have to umount it when you remove it. I have done this several times and it seems to work fine.

When you plug that USB stick into the machine, the system mounts it with synchronous writing, which allows you to do that.

also when I have a cdrom in the drive I can just hit the eject button on the drive and the cdrom comes out without any umounting.

To me, this is just a life saver when I burned 14 Debian discs!

when I try to umount the usbstick or cdrom I get you have to be root error message. I have looked through the docs - but I must be missing something. but I assume this is the way it is designed. anybody else have any experience good or bad with this?

With regards to the USB stick, I'm assuming you try to use the "Safe Remove" feature, this is a known problem and it has been fixed in 10.1, and the bugfix is merly changing 1 character in a KDE servicemenu file.

Here's the fix:

Open whatever text editor as root, and open this file: /opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/media_safelyremove.desktop

Change this line:

Code: Select all

Exec=kio_media_mounthelper -u %u

To:

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Exec=kio_media_mounthelper -e %u

This makes KDE use the eject command instead of the umount command, SUSE allows normal users to use the eject command to eject stuff like USB sticks and CDs, which is quite smart in my opinion.

kudos to suse.

Indeed, I'm hearing that the new package manager is starting to get a lot better, maybe there is hope for it being reliable in the 10.1 final release.

[jsusanka]

that worked for my usb stuff - except the options was -e instead of -u

other than that my experience with suse on amd64 has been awesome - all plugins are installed and working and it pretty much flies.

will probably be buying 10.1 when it hits the shelves.

[Patrick]

other than that my experience with suse on amd64 has been awesome - all plugins are installed and working and it pretty much flies.

will probably be buying 10.1 when it hits the shelves.

I'm planning on buying the box version of Suse 10.1 when it comes out. My first box distro since Red Hat 6.1! If a get a new system anytime soon it will more than likely be a dual Opteron based system. Anyone have experience with the SMP kernel is Suse?

[Tsuroerusu]

I'm planning on buying the box version of Suse 10.1 when it comes out. My first box distro since Red Hat 6.1! If a get a new system anytime soon it will more than likely be a dual Opteron based system. Anyone have experience with the SMP kernel is Suse?

One question Pat, did you just win the lottery or something?

Regarding the SMP kernel, when installing on a system with more than one CPU, either HyperThreading, dual CPU or dual core, YaST will autodetect that and automatically install the SMP-enabled kernel.