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Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Tommy Trussell wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Karl F. Larsen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:klarsen1@gmail.com"><klarsen1@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Christian Csar wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap=""> 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
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap=""><!----> If this is the case why do I get this error message on Hardy?
karl@karl-hardy:~$ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt
mount: only root can do that
karl@karl-hardy:~$
This makes me think it needs to be root :-)
Karl
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I know this is going to sound silly...<br>
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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...<br>
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~Paul</pre>
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