Re: Problem: 'only root can unmount "/dev/something" from "/somewhere"'

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:34:20AM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> on quite a number of machines I've encountered the problem, that a normal user 
> can mount filesystems ("user"-flag set in /etc/fstab) but when trying to 
> unmount, the above error is given instead. It seems a problem in either kernel 
> 2.4 series or one of the new versions of "mount", since I never had that 
> problem before.

Only the user that mounted a user mountable drive can unmount it. And
root offcourse:)

-- 
groetjes, carel