Re: Problem: 'only root can unmount "/dev/something" from "/somewhere"'
>>>>> "Norbert" == Norbert Nemec <nobbi@cheerful.com> writes:
Norbert> Hi there, on quite a number of machines I've encountered the
Norbert> problem, that a normal user can mount filesystems
Norbert> ("user"-flag set in /etc/fstab) but when trying to unmount,
Norbert> the above error is given instead. It seems a problem in
Norbert> either kernel 2.4 series or one of the new versions of
Norbert> "mount", since I never had that problem before.
Newer versions of mount have given a different meaning to the `user'
flag. Only the user who issued the mount command can do the umount.
If you want to have the old behaviour, change the fstab flag to
`users'.
(This feature is described in the mount man page.)
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