On Tuesday 15 November 2005 09:15, Mr Banana wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 20:30 -0600, Chris Edwards wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:15 +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm running Suse Linux 10.0 and my desktop is KDE. I have an issue with USB disks. When I plug one in, it gets recognised and mounted, and KDE asks if I want to open it in konqueror. So far so good. However, after I've finished working with it, I can't unmount it. If I right-click on it in, and select "safely remove", I get an error which says that there's no entry for this device in fstab, and I'm not root. So I have to open a shell window, become root, and unmount it. Gnome, running on Fedora Core 4 can unmount such hotplugged disks, so it must be possible. Any idea how it can be done in Suse/KDE? Do I need any extra software or configuration? Or is this a bug that I should file?
Anand
I am also having this problem - it doesn't seem to hurt anything if I just remove it, but I would prefer to unmount it. Te exact error I get is: Error - kio_media_mounthelper (in the title bar)
unmount:/media/Kingston is not in fstab (and you are not root) Please check that the disk is entered correctly
This has been bugging me for a while and some clues in this thread have led me to figure out what is going on. As others point out the "disk" is mounted with the sync option (unless you turn it off as per the 10.0 release notes) and yanking it out is OK but it offends my sensibilities to do so. If you right click on the desktop device you get a "Safely Remove" action but this complains that you don't have permission to unmount the device. This action is controlled in this menu option:
/opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/media_safelyremove.desktop
The action to perform is 'Exec=kio_media_mounthelper -s %u' which will unmount and eject the media. Change this, or add another menu option, to just eject the media with 'Exec=kio_media_mounthelper -e %u' and you can now issue the eject which will remove the device cleanly and the icon will disappear automatically.
Possibly only a cosmetic enhancement but it makes me feel a lot happier.
Cosmo
Many thanks for that pointer. I had written a msg asking the same thing b-4 getting my afternoon e-mail. -- ...Yogich