External device mounted from the Desktop become unmounted?

[Andrew Robinson]

When I got back the device was no longer in the mount table, so yes,
it was unmounted, but I never unmounted it which is odd. It is almost
as if it timed out. I will let you know if it happens again, but in
the meantime, how do I get rid of the desktop icon without restarting
X (and have it recognize the drive when I put it back in through the
"auto mount" desktop feature)?

On 1/11/07, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Andrew Robinson wrote:
> > I have noticed twice now, that after mounting a device from the
> > auto-desktop icon that it becomes unmounted overtime and the icon will
> > never go away.
> >
> > This has happened with my USB2.0 external hard drive and a USB thumb pen drive.
> >
> > This last time what happened:
> > 1) insert the thumb drive
> > 2) right click on the "sdb1" icon & select mount (to /media/usbdisk)
> > 3) went to lunch
> > 4) came back and didn't show as being mounted
>
> Was it really unmounted (i.e. did you check the output of mount)?
>
> > 5) unplugged the device
>
> Unplugging the device while it's still mounted is likely to cause
> trouble, so from now on weird things can/will happen.
>
> The real question is probably: Which application unmounted the drive and
> why doesn't HAL report the removal of the device?
>
> Benedikt
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