unmount usb mounted device

[Martin (KDE)]

John schrieb:
> On suse 10 there is never any need to unmount autodetected items like a usb 
> stick. Just pull it out and everything looks after it self. Same with cd's 
> and dvd's too. Much better than what preceded it. On suse a konq window pops 
> up on insertion.

OK, but I am used to mount/umount all partitions. The insertation and 
mounting works as expected. Only unmounting does not work as normal user.

I had some problems with automatic un/mounting devices in the past. Some 
programs does not like it.

> 
> John
> 
> On Monday 26 June 2006 07:06, Martin (KDE) wrote:
> 
>>Hallo,
>>
>>I have discovered a realy strange thing this weekend. If I plug in a usb
>>stick, a usb-stick symbol pops up at my desktop. With the latest
>>dbus/hal stuff there is no entry in the fstab (that is ok afaik). I can
>>mount this usb device with no problem.
>>
>>If I want to unmount this device I get no error message. There is
>>something going on (the cpu load is high for about three seconds) but
>>nothing happens. The usb devise keep being mounted. I have to login as
>>root to unmount the device.
>>
>>With the older hal versions there was a tool to update the fstab
>>(fstab-sync), but this tool is remove in current versions. Am I missing
>>something fundamental?
>>
>>KDE 3.5.3 (from cvs from last friday)
>>hal 0.5.7
>>dbus 0.62
>>udev 0.94
>>Kernel 2.6.16.20
>>
>>Martin
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Martin
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