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From my post http://openpli.org/f...ive-mounted-rw/

I realize that every USB mass storage device (HDD or FlashDisk) inserted after E2 is up and running are mounted RW (ReadWrite).
I've made a simple E2 extension (I've called SimpleUmount) to provide a simple way to umount one device simple pressing remote control blue button and select SimpleUmount from extensions list.

- Download the file attached here
- Put it in STB / directory
- cd /
- tar xvzf SimpleUmount-x.xx.tgz
- restart Enigma2

Press on remote control the BLUE key and select SimpleUmount


Feedback and bug report are welcome.
If it will work fine, I will add multilanguage support.

In this new version 0.03 I've added confirm message, warning message if device cannot be umounted (because "busy") and auto reload device list after umount.

Rel. 0.04
Added multilanguage support.
Addes English and Italian translation

Next step create IPK archive

Really nice work, works perfectly on my ET9000. I plugged in and then umounted/unplugged my external drive many times, and it was always umounted properly and then recognized again after reconnection.

The only drawback I see is that an inexperienced user may get confused if the internal drive is shown in the list together with the external ones. If you find a way to detect if a drive is internal or external, then you could add a setting like "hide internal drive" active by default. In this way experienced users could still umount their internal drive if they wish, while inexperienced users will have an easier life
Edited by Gennar1, 12 November 2011 - 18:19.

you could check the 'removable' flag

@gennar1 : you are right. Thanks for idea

@pieterg: /sys/block/sd?/removable Great ! Tomorrow I add your suggestion in my code.

Done. Added "removable" check and config option about show only removable devices

This is my GitHub repo: https://github.com/a...in-SimpleUmount

Please, don't use 0.05 : bug just discovered. Sorry. Wait 0.06

Ok new release 0.06 works fine
https://github.com/a...in-SimpleUmount

Enjoy

If someone has translation, let me know please: I will add in package

i give you a first german translation

Hi,

maybe umount procedure is just a tiny bit of a more complex Devicemanager Plugin as seen in here:

http://www.newnigma2...65606#post65606

Just my two cents on this

-Russian language

Thanks people for DE and RU translation.

This is the updated version with RU and DE languages

Hi,

maybe umount procedure is just a tiny bit of a more complex Devicemanager Plugin as seen in here:

http://www.newnigma2...65606#post65606

Just my two cents on this

Yes. In many images there is something like you suggest.
But I've not found something similar as above in OpenPLI

So I've start to code my plugin. I believe it's simple and fast.
But if anyone what use a more complete DeviceManager ... yes he can !
Edited by ambrosa, 13 November 2011 - 11:47.

The hiding of removable devices works fine, but my USB 2TB Verbatim drive is marked as "not removable" so it is still shown together with the internal drive:

root@et9x00:~# cat /sys/block/sdb/removable
0

Any idea?

The hiding of removable devices works fine, but my USB 2TB Verbatim drive is marked as "not removable" so it is still shown together with the internal drive:

root@et9x00:~# cat /sys/block/sdb/removable
0

Any idea?

Mmhhhhh which type of filesystem ?

I've tried with:
- USB stick ext2
- USB stick vfat
- USB HDD 2.5" NTFS
all these are marked as 'removable' (= 1)

My internal SATA ext4 is marked (obviously) as not removable (= 0)

Your HDD is externally powered (I think 2TB USB HDD 2.5" doesn't exist .....) ? This can make difference ?

Too big ?

Yes, it's externally powered. Moreover it has an USB 3.0 interface. Tomorrow I will check with other drives to see if it's an isolated issue. Anyway, it's not an issue of your plugin, which is working perfectly fine.

Try inserting it in a Linux PC and test
/sys/block/sdb/removable


I think that there will be no differences with CT9x00 but test this can be a nice idea. Just to compare different architectures.

In fact it's the same even under Ubuntu. Also I tested a few more devices: another big external drive (USB 2.0 this time) shows the same behaviour, while small USB flash drives are correctly marked as removable.
Probably the problem is that those big external drives are just normal 3.5" SATA desktop disks into an USB enclosure, so they are probably detected by the kernel as not removable drives.

No big deal anyway, your plugin works fine.

Great job @ambrosa !

One suggestion :
<widget name="wdg_label_legend_2" position="140,60" size="170,30" font="Regular;20" />

Polish translation :

I attach here new version 0.08

- completely rewritten mount point parsing code. A user (MiLo) report me crash.
Now I don't use anymore unrealiable 'os.popen' but much safer Console.ePopen() and read /proc/mounts file

- added Polish translation (Thanks Graffy)


GitHub : https://github.com/a...in-SimpleUmount