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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:56:58 -0400
From: Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@ncsu.edu>
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Subject: Re: USB Key light on/off state depending on mount
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Sorry to have left this dormant for so long.

Running eject in either of the ways suggested still leaves the light on 
my particular key turned on.

Stefan Richter wrote:
> Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>   
>> I might imagine how windows turns the LED off on 
>> unmount. Try "eject /dev/sdX", where sdX is your USB storage, after you 
>> unmount it. Be careful, especially if you have SATA (or SCSI) discs in 
>> your system or if you use libata for PATA discs not to eject the wrong 
>> one...
>>     
>
> If there is only one USB disk connected:
> # eject /dev/disk/by-path/*usb*:0
>
> Provided you let udev create links for you.  BTW, the /dev/disk/by-id/
> symlinks are nice for static mount points in /etc/fstab.
>
> After a disk was mounted, eject also accepts the mountpoint as parameter
> and will unmount the disk before it tries to eject it.
>   

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