Well, things have gone from bad to worse! I removed one floppy, inserted another, clicked on its icon and got three pop-up messages from "SuSE Hardware Detection" saying:
A new hard disc was detected Open with: kfmclient openURL file:/media/usb-storage-odd-YEDATA-USBFloppyDrive:0:0:0p1 ?
The mount command now shows:
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid) /dev/sdb on /media/floppy1 type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/sdb1 on /media/usb-storage-odd-YEDATA-USBFloppyDrive:0:0:0p1 type subfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid) /dev/sdb2 on /media/usb-storage-odd-YEDATA-USBFloppyDrive:0:0:0p2 type subfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid) /dev/sdb4 on /media/usb-storage-odd-YEDATA-USBFloppyDrive:0:0:0p4 type subfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid) /dev/sdb3 on /media/usb-storage-odd-YEDATA-USBFloppyDrive:0:0:0p3 type subfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
Hmmmm this is not good!
And I can't unmount any of it as a regular user!
I have a idea here but it might not be the correct answer.
Per the fuser command I am not referencing /media/floppy or /media/floppy1 anywhere so, if I understand the submount man page, the submount system should have unmounted things automatically.
Look and see if Konqueror has more than one window open. If so, get rid of all instances of Konqueror and try to access the floppies again. This time, you may be able to umount them as user. If for some miracle works, then tell KDE not to start up a instance of Konqueror at startup.
If this subfs stuff is supposed to make things easier, it has a long way to go to do so for me!
Well I am learning as well. Let us keep plugging away at it. Marshall