On Sunday 19 September 2004 11:33 pm, Giorgos Tsarmpopoulos wrote:
I've encountered a problem with the K3B DVD/CD writer program: when I attempt to write to the DVD, K3B tells me that it's already mounted. I'm a little surprised, since I wouldn't have thought that putting a blank | DVD in the drive would provoke an implicit mount. I also can't find a way to unmount the DVD without using root privileges.
Is there a way to prevent the implicit mount?
You can put the option users at the dvd-recorder's entry at /etc/fstab. That lets normal users mount/unmount the drive, so k3b (run as a normal user) won't have any problem unmounting it when it needs to write. (that did the trick for me).
Your comment suggests that you encountered the same problem I did. Once you added "user" to the /etc/fstab entry, did K3B do the necessary unmount on its own or did you have to do it yourself explicitly? Paul
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:56:10 -0400, Paul W. Abrahams
Your comment suggests that you encountered the same problem I did. Once you added "user" to the /etc/fstab entry, did K3B do the necessary unmount on its own or did you have to do it yourself explicitly?
Paul
Yes I did encounter the same problem. By adding "users" k3b was able to unmount the drive on its own -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
On Monday 20 September 2004 1:14 pm, Giorgos Tsarmpopoulos wrote:
By adding "users" k3b was able to unmount the drive on its own
Interesting. I had "user" but not "users". When I first read your post I thought you had made a typo, but "user" and "users" are two different options, both valid. I gather from the "mount" man page that "users" allows a drive to be mounted by one user but unmounted by a different user, while "user" doesn't permit that. Is that your understanding of the difference? In the case of k3b, the drive is mounted implicitly by root when the blank DVD is inserted -- which is a little surprising since a blank DVD shouldn't be readable. Paul
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