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* McAuley, Grant (LLU) <gmcauley@...> [05/08/08 18:10 -0700]:
> umount: only root can unmount /dev/sdb from /media/usbdisk
> Please check that the disk is entered correctly.
>
> I obviously would like to be able to 'safely remove' the drive without
> being 'root'. Any information would be helpful.
Sounds like the "bug" in hald. Open
/usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-policy.fdi and
change the only occurence of "user" into "users". This
should help.
Regards, Lars
PS: If your USB pen is quite slow, you want to change the
sync-option from true to false (well, then you can't see the
transfer-rate, but with sync set it was terrible slow and
only tiny snippets were transferred with one move).
--
Lars Weiler <pylon@g.o> +49-171-1963258
Gentoo Linux PowerPC : Developer and Release Engineer
Gentoo Infrastructure : CVS Administrator
Gentoo Foundation : Trustee
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