How to mount and umount a USB pen drive without being root?

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 5 23:58:42 UTC 2006


On 11/5/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> 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... :-)

Paul




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