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

[Paul Gupta]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   
I know this is going to sound silly...

but have you simply tried rebooting?  The startup scripts tend to clean 
up this kind of residue left over from unclean mounts...I think? Since 
it's not going to be detected at boot it shouldn't be left there on the 
desktop...

-- 
~Paul

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