[kde-linux] Correct way to remove USB Drive from KDE-Linux system

[Bogus Zaba]

Sagara Wijetunga wrote:

>--- Bogus Zaba <bogzab at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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>>Is there a "correct" / safe way to remove a USB
>>drive from the system?
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>In Unix (Linux, etc):
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>Correct way to attach: mount
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>Correct way to remove: umount
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>if you do not mount, you cannot access your drive
>(hard disk, cd/dvd, USB drive, camera, etc).
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>If you do not umount before physical removal, you risk
>data corruptions.
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>Sagara
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Thanks, that's very clear and more or less what I thought. What confuses 
the issue a bit is that our
nice friendly desktop (KDE) detects when a drive is plugged in and runs 
the "mount" for you (I think). So the naive user (me) does not know that 
"mount" has been run and does not realise that "umount" needs to be done.

btw, do you have to be root to run mount and umount. I think I have been 
told before now "you can't do this" when I've tried to umount.

Bogus

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