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 >
