Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-05 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/4/07, James Lockie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:28:06 -0500, James Lockie wrote: > > >> It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it. >> My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine. >> It is only the hard drive that I can't unmount

Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-04 Thread James Lockie
Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: -Original Message- From: James Lockie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 January 2007 05:28 To: Gentoo User Mailing List Subject: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive Does anyone have one of these? :-) It mounts when I connect it but a user c

Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-04 Thread James Lockie
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:28:06 -0500, James Lockie wrote: It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it. My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine. It is only the hard drive that I can't unmount as a user. You may need to add it to /etc/pmount.allo

Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 19:13:07 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > That said, I don't know what causes this behaviour. ;-( It definitely used to be caused by pmount, which automatically mounts and unmounts removable devices but not hard disks, unless they are whitelisted in /etc/pmount.allow. Although it shou

Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 January 2007 17:20, Richard Fish wrote: > On 1/3/07, James Lockie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have one of these? :-) > > It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it. > > My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine. > > It is only the hard drive that I can't un

Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/3/07, James Lockie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have one of these? :-) It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it. My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine. It is only the hard drive that I can't unmount as a user. I don't have or want an /etc/fstab entry for

RE: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-04 Thread
> -Original Message- > From: James Lockie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 January 2007 05:28 > To: Gentoo User Mailing List > Subject: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive > > > Does anyone have one of these? :-) > It mounts when I connect it but a user

Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:28:06 -0500, James Lockie wrote: > It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it. > My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine. > It is only the hard drive that I can't unmount as a user. You may need to add it to /etc/pmount.allow, as described in man pmou

[gentoo-user] external USB harddrive

2007-01-03 Thread James Lockie
Does anyone have one of these? :-) It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it. My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine. It is only the hard drive that I can't unmount as a user. I don't have or want an /etc/fstab entry for it, I should be able to configure KDE to handle it.