[ale] USB Key FOB not unmountable by user

[James Sumners]

Oops. Not sure why I thought 1000 = root. Too much algebra on the
brain (0 ~ 1000 mod 10)? Who knows?

I assume the distribution is Ubuntu. That seems to be what all the
cool kids are running these days. That leads my searches to
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-539351.html , with the
resolution of the following:

1) Right click the icon representing the mount and choose "unmount."
2) If you really want to unmount it from a terminal, use `eject /media/device`

On 10/19/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 10:31 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > Also, uid 1000 is usually root. Thus, root must unmount it.
>
> UID 0 is root. Most human users UID start above 500 or so but some
> systems start at 1000. check /etc/passwd for the username for UID 1000.
>

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