[ale] shifting permissions

William Witt william at witt-family.net
Wed Apr 5 17:11:23 EDT 2006


It never worked all that well for me, but in KDE, when you insert the 
card, it pops up on the desktop.  Right clicking on the device brings up 
a menu, contained therein is a umount option.  It always gave me the 
"only root can dismount" error (SuSE 10).

Will

Jim wrote:
> This brings up a question.  On Suse 9.3, when I plug in an SD card into 
> an attached card reader, a window pops up displaying all the files.  
> Since it's not a good idea to remove said card unless it's unmounted, 
> how do you unmount it without actually issuing the umount command?  I 
> ask this because my attempts to educate my wife on command line usage 
> has failed miserably and she likes to use her camera card to store 
> images to take to have photos printed after she's edited them. 
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
> H. A. Story wrote:
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>> Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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>>> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 20:28, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>>> | I remain clueless.
>>>
>>> I am no longer clueless. OS assigns Thumb Drive to /dev/sdb1.
>>> I needed to change the perms on that device. Did so. Now it
>>> mounts without problem.
>>>
>>> Sean
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>> Now that you figured that out.   I set my /etc/fstab up much easier 
>> knowing that perhaps one day it will change and break.   I just have the 
>> line
>>
>> /dev/sdb1       /mnt/usb1          vfat      noauto,user,rw   0    0
>>
>> Keep in mind that when you add or remove a SCSI device in the future it 
>> will break.   Now there are several pages on udev and how to set it up 
>> with hotplug.  You can basically setup the system to auto mount the 
>> device based on Manufactor and/or serial number it looks like.   I have 
>> not played with it enough though.
>>
>> Adrin
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