On Tuesday 06 June 2006 4:07 pm, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
Hi All, I get the following message when trying to "safely remove" USB Stick as a user:
umount: /media/usbdisk is not in the fstab (and you are not root) Please check that the disk is entered correctly.
I tried to umount it from konsole after su-ing as root, but I think it is not the "safely remove". The USB stick is an automount device. It can safely be removed without being umounted. A non-root user cannot umount a mounted file system that does not have a corresponding fstab entry that allows user mounting and umounting.
For years I have always been paranoid about umounting, but I've gotten away
from that in the past year, especially since the 2.6 kernel.
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Jerry Feldman