Robin
Version update to unplugdrive 0.83
Bugfixes:
— true rotational devices do spin down now when user is told it is safe to unplug.
— speeded up waiting time for write cache sync with device. Turned out on heavy system load the check misses sometimes the moment system reports cache is written, causing our script to wait forever… Fix speeds up waiting time for this noticeably.
Side effects: As a consequence of this bugfix the default behaviour of unplugdrive had to be changed. Since we simply can’t tell users it is safe to unplug their rotational device while it is still spinning, the default has to take this into account. If user decides on his own not to use safe settings, he can use options.
So the option -s or –safe-mode is deprecated now, since safe mode is to be default now.
Instead we see two new options now:
-u – -unsafe which restores the unsafe behaviour known as default from former versions.
-i – -ignore doesn’t care of rotationals, even in default mode. This is meant to deal with some unreliable manufacturers, fooling us reporting to system their device was rotational even if this is not true. In case manufacturer have implemented this correctly (completely), the wrong report is acceptable, since these devices do actually react to spindown command with the correct answer (telling “yes, we are spun down” in no time) so everything works fine. But some manufacturers don’t care neither of correct reporting nor of responding to spindown command at all. Which causes system to wait useless 30 seconds for a response which never happens to come. Only in these special cases user may speed up things a little by using -i, knowing what he’s doing.
Translations:
Some few new strings for this version are waiting for translation on transifex antiX contribs.
No need to copy strings 1:1 from ”Pirate English” to true English (en). Only If you want to make improvements to my doggerel original strings, please “translate” the string(s) in question to true English (en), leaving all the fine ones blank. If you want to have different flavours of English please feel free to add strings in en_GB, en_US and other English language flavours.
Now most of the strings are featured with developers notes and string instructions.
Download:
Program script file of unplugdrive ver. 0.83 on gitlab for download.
Unplugdrive Version 0.83 Language template file (.pot) on gitlab for download.
Unplugdrive 0.83 German language file (.mo) on gitlab for download.
Bug reporting:
As always: Please test this on any kind of plugable storage devices and please report any bugs here. I have myself done testing alredy with all pluggable devices within my reach.
If no problems show up, I’ll file a merge request for this version to anticapitalista next week.
Bear in mind, the wellknown “can’t-unmount-when-mountpoint-contains-blank-character” bug isn’t fixed yet in this version. So there is no need to report about this. Bugfix for this will come in next version.
Have fun with it
Kind regards
Robin
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