USB thumb drive pulled and icon left on desktop - how do I remove it??

[Karl F. Larsen]

Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Christian Csar wrote:
>>     
>>> Assuming that when you say you tried to unmount it you mean that you
>>> right clicked and selected unmount, then you could also try unmounting
>>> it from the command line i.e. umount /media/disk or something similar. I
>>> believe that if you mounted it in the first place, then you should not
>>> need root privileges.
>>>
>>>       
>>    You are wrong. You must be root to use mount and umount in a
>> terminal. There are some GUI things that appear to let a non-root mount
>> and umount and they work. But they use a root device to do it.
>>
>> Karl
>>     
>
> NO... you CAN mount and umount devices as a user (non-root) in a
> terminal if the device is set with the correct permissions in fstab or
> hal. HOWEVER in many cases you will see a conflict because GNOME or
> KDE may have mounted the device and it will be busy because it's
> "owned" by those processes. SO if you log out of the GUI and use only
> a console ("virtual terminal") you won't have any trouble mounting and
> umounting devices as a user.
>
> When you use sudo or root to force the device to umount you may
> interfere with an active process, and/or you may corrupt data on the
> device if its contents have not finished writing.
>
>   
    If this is the case why do I get this error message on Hardy?

 karl at karl-hardy:~$ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt
mount: only root can do that
karl at karl-hardy:~$


    This makes me think it needs to be root :-)

Karl


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