On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 11:41 -0400, Glenn Lawyer wrote: > Hi, > > A USB issue with FC5 (fresh install on a 64 bit AMD). Logged in as a > regular user, using the KDE desktop. Connect a USB drive. It > automounts and I get the nice icon on the desktop. From the icon I can > "safely remove" or (after "safely removing") "mount" the drive. > > Can't do either from the command line. umount tells me I'm not root, > and mount fails because the device isn't listed anywhere I know of. > > Yes, I could probably spend 4 hours reading > http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html, and then another > hour reading up on sysf, but geez, it shouldn't take all day and > mastery of two subsystems to learn how to (u)mount a drive from the > command line, especially when the disto includes GUI commands for the > same action! > > Can you kindly give the ½ hour tutorial version? Here's my very vauge > and probably wrong outline, posed as questions: > > do I add a line for each detatchable media to my fstab file? Could you > give me an example line for a thumbdrive that automounts as > "/media/CORSAIR"? > > Could you give me an example udev rule that would put this drive where > fstab says it should go? > > Where do I put this udev rule? Does it go in its own file, or is there > a system-wide file? > > It looks like I have to run udevstart after changing the rules. > Correct? > Try using gnome-umount. There's no manpage. Use gnome-mount -? for options.
