[ubuntu-uk] Mounting drive and closing users

[Alan Pope]

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On 31/05/12 23:19, Andres Muniz wrote:
> Short: how do I get that when my user closes it also makes drives 
> that were (are) mounted availble for other users to mount?
> 

If you want something mounted and available for all users you should
maybe specify it in /etc/fstab.

This has a nice set of answers:-

http://askubuntu.com/questions/1644/mounting-a-usb-disk-in-a-permanent-location

> My long story: I noticed something yesterday on ubuntu 12.04. My
> wife mounted our windows drive on her user account she then closed
> her account(closed not switched) and I open mine and I could not
> see the windows drive. I switched and opened my wife's account  and
> found the drive mounted automatically. I select "unmount safely"
> and colse the user (my wife's) and go back to mine. And there i see
> the drive: unmounted.
> 

This is normal/expected behaviour and not a bug.

Cheers,
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Alan Pope
Engineering Manager

Canonical - Product Strategy
+44 (0) 7973 620 164
alan.pope at canonical.com
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