Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Mounting gone mad
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:07:54AM +0000, John Hunt wrote: > I have a strange query:
>
> When I plug a USB stick/ipod in to my system that is running Ubuntu
> Edgy, it automatically mounts it (no entry in my fstab).
That would be pmount.
> If I un-mount
> it manually, the light/do not remove message doesn't turn off/go
> away...however, if I use the eject function on right clicking the
> icon, these things un-mount properly (lights go out etc).
>
Uhmm. don't unmount manually?
> How on earth can I control how gnome auto mounts things? I think I'd
> rather do it myself manually, or better yet, find out where udev or
> whatever is doing it and configure it all there.
>
If I understand you right you're saying "when I bypass the built in system for automatically mounting and
unmounting disks, it doesn't work".
Why not just use "eject" rather than (as I assume you are doing) "umount"?
