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Bug 545872 - Cannot umount external hard disk because Beagle is working on it
Cannot umount external hard disk because Beagle is working on it
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: beagle
Classification: Other
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Beagle Bugs
Beagle Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-08-01 15:27 UTC by Vincent Untz
Modified: 2008-09-12 22:47 UTC
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Description Vincent Untz 2008-08-01 15:27:10 UTC 
Forwarding https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=290478:

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I frequently switch on my external hard disk to copy a few files, and I would
like to unmount it afterwards. Unfortunately, this is not possible since Beagle
is accessing the device. I would strongly recommend to implement a behavior
where umounting has a higher priority than Beagle doing its indexing stuff.

[...]

I've expicitely told Beagle to index my external hard disk. Still, I would like
it to stop its activity as soon as I want to unmount it, and that is not
possible because Beagle is blocking the disk.
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Comment 1 Debajyoti Bera 2008-09-12 22:47:49 UTC 
Beagle 0.3.8 contains a new tool to index removable hard-disks. See http://www.mail-archive.com/dashboard-hackers@gnome.org/msg04465.html

Indexing removable medium is not recommended with earlier versions for exactly the problem described in the bug.