Re: regular user can't umount automount drive

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:17:47 +0100
Klistvud <quotations@aliceadsl.fr> wrote:

> Dne, 11. 03. 2011 07:32:31 je briand@aracnet.com napisal(a):
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > Here's the option line from the auto.media file:
> > 
> > /media/thingy
> > -fstype=vfat,users,flush,rw,umask=0000	:/dev/ipod
> > 
> > I could have sworn this was working...
> > 
> > I posted a while back and found out that the "users" option had to
> > be in
> > there.
> > 
> > Now I get this :
> > 
> >    umount: /media/thingy is not in the fstab (and you are not root)
> > 
> > I could have sworn it was working...#$#%#@!!
> > 
> > any ideas ?
> > 
> >  Brian
> > 
> 
> To my knowledge, automounter is supposed to unmount the device  
> automatically -- not manually -- once all processes have stopped
> using it (for example, it will not unmount the device so long as
> there's a Nautilus window somewhere displaying its contents). Just
> make sure no process is accessing the device, and it should get
> unmounted in due time.
> 

It _can_ automagically unmount it, you can specify the amount of time
before it umounts.  However this should not prevent me from explicitly
umount'ing.

Again, I was just sure that this was working at one point, and with the
users keyword it really should be.

Brian