How to umount USB disk in GNOME
Ever since I loaded suse 9.3, whenenver I added a usb disk either a harddrive or a memory media, the system would come up and automtically mount the drives on the desktop. This is an okay but I am having a problem to umount the drive. When I click on the icon and request aan umount, I get the following message: "umount: only root can unmount /dev/sdc1 from /media/usbdisk". The only way I can umount the drive is to go to the root and umount the drive /dev/sdc1. I got rid of the fstab error by adding /media/usbdisk to the fstab. I also set it so users can mount or umount the drive. In KDE, the user can mount and umount the drive with no problem. GNOME should have a similiar property. Is there a configuration or something that wil allow me to umount the drive? -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
Joseph Loo wrote:
When I click on the icon and request aan umount, I get the following message:
"umount: only root can unmount /dev/sdc1 from /media/usbdisk".
with your usb disk / media inserted Yast > system > partitioner choose the relevant entry fstab options > Mountable by user This should solve your problem fx
I already have then set to usr mountable. It seems that you have to hand edit the elements. The partitioner will not see the entries. When the device is first mounted, you have to be root and umount the device. Once you do that, I can then mount and umount the device with no problem. It is the initial mount that cause this problem. FX Fraipont wrote:
Joseph Loo wrote:
When I click on the icon and request aan umount, I get the following message:
"umount: only root can unmount /dev/sdc1 from /media/usbdisk".
with your usb disk / media inserted
Yast > system > partitioner choose the relevant entry
fstab options > Mountable by user
This should solve your problem
fx
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
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