Re: umounting detatchable media in FC5
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.