Impossible to eject dvd?

[Jim Cornette]

nodata wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 10.09.2006, 18:36 -0400 schrieb Jim Cornette:
>> Filip Tsachev wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> When I inserted dvd+rw, it was mounted. I wanted to rewrite it with
>>> k3b. Tried using gnome-umount -u /dev/hdc, with no luck. While right
>>> clicking the device only offers eject as an option. Had to use umount
>>> /dev/hdc as root, because using it as an user produced the output:
>>> "it's not in fstab and you're not root". Guess I miss something about
>>> gnome-mount in the overall picture.
>>>
>> The choice to unmount a device should be offered as a selection within 
>> the GUI interface. Why there is no choice is beyond me.
> 
> Probably because the idea is for a user to "not need to know" about
> mounting and unmounting.

In a case like that, the applications need to know how to mount and 
unmount devices which must be in this state. Currently applications do 
not seem to have a universal way to accomplish this goal. On another 
note, let them open a terminal, give some device naming information, 
abbreviated or otherwise not obvious command options to a program with 
poor, if any documentation and having the choice in the GUI to do so 
sounds more user friendly.


> 
>>> Though the 
>> subject is related to ejecting the CD, which I have no problems using.
> 
> The latest version of eject uses pam, so can unmount as a user.

Thanks for the information! It explains why I can eject the CD or DVD 
anyway. It sure beats a paper clip. Keeping too much control from a user 
is more dangerous than oversimplifying control options.

Jim


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