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

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 01:52:20 UTC 2009


H.S. wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     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 :-)
>>     
>
>
> I think you need to lookup 'users' option for mount command. I also
> think you need to have a line for your /dev/sda2 device in /etc/fstab
> with proper options so that normal users can mount or unmount the
> device. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Regards.
> ->HS
>
>
>
>
>   
    Well I have NO idea what your talking about. Fstab has no control 
over mount that I am aware of and it is just the way mount works.


Karl


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