Re: How to mount and umount a USB pen drive without being root?

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On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 00:08 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 11/6/06, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > How to mount and umount a USB pen drive without being root?
> > > > ----
> > > > which sort of explains...
> > > > - why 'safely remove' didn't work for you (because it is in user space)
> > > > - why copying didn't work (probably because you were mounting as root
> > > > and copying as user)
> > >
> > > Thanks, Craig. I do not know what KDE does internally. If one could
> > > manually mount pen drives as mere users (and not only as root), then
> > > one would escape from the KDE bug... :-)
> > ----
> > mount should occur automatically as user - at least it has in FC-3, FC-4
> > and FC-5 and I assume FC-6 but I haven't tested FC-6 yet.
> >
> > As I suggested in another e-mail on this thread, IF you are logged in as
> > user and you insert USB Key/pen whatever you want to call it...it should
> > be automatically mounted as the logged in user in /media/usb-disk or
> > something very similar in /media
> >
> > This of course assumes that you haven't mucked with /etc/fstab or udev
> 
> It happens as you describe. However, there is no way of safely
> removing the media but removing it as root.
> 
Sure there is (at least in gnome).  The desktop icon has an unmount
option, and that makes sure writes are complete before the icon is
removed (and the umount completes).

I use it all the time in both FC5 andf FC6.

> Paul
> 

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