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I noticed that there has not graphical app for unmounting or ejecting CDs in rox-icewm. In Puppy linux has graphical app for Pmount, is it available for antiX too?
- This topic was modified 1 month ago by RJP.
Robin
In antiX you can simply do it from within the file manager. Right click the device in e.g. zzzFM and select “Eject“. (Make sure you have the devices section set visible)
Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.
In antiX you can simply do it from within the file manager. Right click the device in e.g. zzzFM and select “Eject“. (Make sure you have the devices section set visible)
Yes I know that, but I want faster way. I found from Internet one pmount-gui which had to compile from sources. It works ok, but it is very simple compairing with Puppy Linux´s one. :/
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I found better pmount-gui from https://github.com/chriscamacho/pmount-gui-ng
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Do these GUI tools show CD- and DVD drives only or is it partly redundant with unplugdrive, which takes care of some more issues related with proper unmounting USB devices? Unplugdrive handles nested and also multiple (duplicate) mount points of a partition, as well as mountpoint names containing blanks and special characters, also luks encrypted devices, and takes care for proper spinning down true rotational drives before it gives OK. The question is because pumount itself lists all kind of removable devices, so I guess the pumount gui will also display all the USB devices, not only CD and DVD drives for unmounting to the user.
Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.
It sees USB-devices and CDs and DVDs when there is something in the drive or an USB-port.
It works fine in antiX. I tested it in ExeGnu Linux, and it worked fine too. I made deb-packages (32 and 64-bit) for my own use because I am lazy. 😀
It seems to be workable and reliable. It can be added to IceWM toolbar using icewm-toolbar-icon-manager
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Mechanical hard drive in USB-hard-drive-bay spins about a minute after umounting partitions, so wait before taking USB off.
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Hi RJP,
Mechanical hard drive in USB-hard-drive-bay spins about a minute after umounting partitions, so wait before taking USB off.
Does not work for my external Terabyte Seagate spinning backup usb-hdd. It doesn’t stop spinning full speed even a full hour later after using pumount on this device. The default Debian pumount neglects this task of sending the spindown command completely, relying simply (and falsely) on the drive will do this on its own. Unfortunately the specially by Xecure crafted antiX version has ceased working some time ago and needs urgently a fix by a programmer able to understand the code.
It seems to be workable and reliable.
How does it handle the nested mounts on a antiX Live system? Does it allow the user to unmount them even when they are blocked by the nested live mount of some files containing system’s filesystems on it?
Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.
Hi RJP,
Mechanical hard drive in USB-hard-drive-bay spins about a minute after umounting partitions, so wait before taking USB off.
Does not work for my external Terabyte Seagate spinning backup usb-hdd. It doesn’t stop spinning full speed even a full hour later after using pumount on this device. The default Debian pumount neglects this task of sending the spindown command completely, relying simply (and falsely) on the drive will do this on its own. Unfortunately the specially by Xecure crafted antiX version has ceased working some time ago and needs urgently a fix by a programmer able to understand the code.
Obviously it depends on hardware, because it works in my USB-hard-drive-bay. Hard drive stops spinning after umounting within a minute, was it umounted using pmount or unplugdrive.sh.
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I tested using with WD elements usb-hard-drive, and it did not stop spinning!. Via unplugdrive.sh it stops spinning, but it mounts the drive automatically soon after unmounting. :O
WD Elements does not stop spinning even it is unmounted and ejected using zzzFM.
Edit 2. some reason WD Elements stops correctly using unplugdrive.sh when I did the second test. With pmount WD Elements does not stop spinning.
Edit 3. Pmount GUI does not claim that WD Elements would be removed, so for removing the drive must use some other method.
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Pmount is not meant to be a safe removal program, but rather a partition mounting and unmounting program.
https://wiki.debian.org/pmount
pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. This provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME’s Utopia project and confines the amount of code that runs as root to a minimum.
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