tag 415482 patch thanks I have the same issue, with drives that are labelled "External HD" and are mounted automatically by gnome-volume-manager.
My solution is not very pretty, but it works for me - see attach. Thanks, -- M
--- umountfs.orig 2008-01-08 00:20:33.000000000 +0100 +++ umountfs 2008-02-22 07:26:52.000000000 +0100 @@ -138,11 +138,17 @@ if [ "$VERBOSE" = no ] then log_action_begin_msg "Unmounting local filesystems" - umount -f -r -d $REG_MTPTS + for MTPT in $REG_MTPTS + do + umount -f -r -d "`echo $MTPT | sed 's/\\040/\ /'`" + done log_action_end_msg $? else log_daemon_msg "Will now unmount local filesystems" - umount -f -v -r -d $REG_MTPTS + for MTPT in $REG_MTPTS + do + umount -f -v -r -d "`echo $MTPT | sed 's/\\040/\ /'`" + done log_end_msg $? fi fi