On Fri, 05 May 2006 11:41:59 -0400 Glenn Lawyer <d.g.lawyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 vague > and probably wrong outline, posed as questions: > > do I add a line for each detachable 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? Hello, Glenn I can't give you an example of a udev rule. But I can tell you that I use the KDE desktop as well, and that I had the same problem that you are having now when I installed FC5. What I have done is to add the following lines to my /etc/fstab: /dev/scd0 /media/cdrecorder udf,iso9660 auto,user,kudzu,exec,ro 0 0 #/dev/scd1 /media/cdrecorder udf,iso9660 auto,user,kudzu,exec,ro 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 auto,user,kudzu,exec,ro 0 0 #/dev/sdb1 /media/usbdisk auto auto,user 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk auto auto,user 0 0 You can ignore the lines that are commented out. For some reason, I have an additional issue where /dev/scd0 will become /dev/scd1, and /dev/sda1 will become /dev/sdb1 (but this hasn't happened for a while :)) (My cdrecorder of the external USB2.0 variety.) In response to your problem, I just made it even more user-friendly for myself. Do as follows: 1. Put lines in /etc/fstab for any devices that you may want to mount as a regular user, using the examples from my own /etc/fstab 2. In your "~/.kde/Autostart" directory, create a symlink to "/usr/bin/autorun" 3. In your "~/.bashrc" put a line like this: alias autorun="/usr/bin/autorun -d" This will force "autorun" to run as a daemon after you login to KDE. 4. Log out, and then log back in. I just tried logging out and then logging back in WITH a data CDROM in my cdrecorder. When I logged in, that CDROM mounted with no interference from me :) I then opened up a terminal and ran "umount /media/cdrecorder" as a regular user. Worked perfectly. Word of caution, though: I left the CDROM in the drive as I continued typing this, and it remounted itself :) For whatever reason, my flash drive does not automount on login. Not a huge deal, since I can now run "mount /media/usbdisk" as a regular user. Also, using the MountMan feature on the Krusader file manager: http://krusader.sourceforge.net/ That works great as well (again, as a regular user) If this does not work as seamlessly for you as it does for me, let me know and maybe I can help you further. Steven P. Ulrick
