How to mount and umount a USB pen drive without being root?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 06 November 2006 03:15, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 00:08 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> > It happens as you describe. However, there is no way of safely
> > removing the media but removing it as root.
>
> Sure there is (at least in gnome).  The desktop icon has an unmount
> option, and that makes sure writes are complete before the icon is
> removed (and the umount completes).
>
> I use it all the time in both FC5 andf FC6.
>
Similarly, in kde I have a desktop icon from which I get 'Safely Remove', and 
it works perfectly.  I do always allow a few seconds grace before I remove 
it, just in case any cache is being flushed.

Anne
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