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

[Paul Smith]

On 11/6/06, 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... :-)
> ----
> 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.

Paul