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Gary Jahns

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Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 5:01am

Safely Remove USB drive does not work

I can plug in a USB drive and use it, but when I right-click the drive icon in Konqueror and select "Safely Remove", nothing happens. I have to shut down to get the drive out. I would appreciate any advice on how to get the Safely Remove feature working. I am running Fedora Core 6.

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Thursday, November 30th 2006, 10:53am

Hi,

This is propoably because the usb drive is mounted with root permission, and you are logged as a simple user, so you can unmount the device.

To change that :
- search in which name your usb device is mounted. To do that type "mount" in a prompt.
- in general cases, the name of the usb drive is /dev/sda1
- open the /etc/fstab file (with the root permission), and verifiy there are no line for your device (noline start with /dev/sda1 or the name of your device). If yes, enter these data on a new line :
/dev/sda1 /media/cle-usb auto rw,noauto,user 0 2.
- with root permission, you can umount your device (umount /dev/sda1).
- in Konqueror, click or double click on your usb device : the device is mounted. By right clicking on "Safely Remove" on Konqueror, you can now unplug your device.

Regards
French newbie in testing debian

Gary Jahns

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Friday, December 1st 2006, 1:04am

Thanks Tayral, I got it working with your instructions. FYI to anyone else that needs to do this: when you do the mount command in the first step, note the mount point. When you get to the line added to fstab, use this mount point instead of Tayral's "cle-usb".

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Friday, December 1st 2006, 9:00am

Yes,

I forgot that. The mount point must exist (in my exemple /media/cle-usb). If not, you must create the directory with the command mkdir.
French newbie in testing debian