umount: not coherent with fstab

[Tony Arnold]

Luca,

Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2007 Mitch Contla's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote:
>> Why dont you type 'mount' and see how the os thinks the file systems are
>> mounted. Maybe this will give you a clue as to why your umount is not
>> working. Are you using umount as root?
> 
> The mount command reports me the filesystem is ok with fstab. If I umount as 
> root it works, then I can re-mount as normal user, but cannot umount as 
> normal user. But the mount point belongs to the user and my fstab contains 
> the users option:
> 
> # /dev/sda12
> UUID=E63F-7400  /mnt/disco2     vfat    
> defaults,utf8,umask=000,users,exec,suid 0       1
> 
> 
> [luca at fluca:~]$ mount | grep disco1
> /dev/sda11 on /mnt/disco1 type vfat (rw,nodev,utf8,umask=000)
> 
> 
> What am I missing?

I always thought you had to be root to umount anything, especially if it
was mounted via fstab. pmount and pumount are used to mount an unmount
removable devices.

Regards,
Tony.
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