Re: how to umount a usb flash drive through cli as a normal user

2010-10-19 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
In the pmount package there is also a "pumount" command. The new device name can be found in the file /proc/partitions. So the whole procedure could be like this, using the symbolic name "udisk": cat /proc/partitions pmount /dev/sdb1 udisk # now the device can be accessed via /media/udisk pumount

Re: how to umount a usb flash drive through cli as a normal user

2010-10-12 Thread vishnu vardhan
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 11 October 2010 23:52, vishnu vardhan > wrote: > > to mount the usb flash drive : > > > > [a] start mc and search for jet under /dev/disk/by-id folder and note > down > > the name, for e.g. sdb1 > > This is a bit tangential, but do you kno

Re: how to umount a usb flash drive through cli as a normal user

2010-10-12 Thread s. keeling
Jason Heeris : > On 11 October 2010 23:52, vishnu vardhan > wrote: > > > > [a] start mc and search for jet under /dev/disk/by-id folder and note down > > the name, for e.g. sdb1 > > This is a bit tangential, but do you know about the "pmount-hal" > [...] > works out some other mount flags fo

Re: how to umount a usb flash drive through cli as a normal user

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Heeris
On 11 October 2010 23:52, vishnu vardhan wrote: > to mount the usb flash drive : > > [a] start mc and search for jet under /dev/disk/by-id folder and note down > the name, for e.g. sdb1 This is a bit tangential, but do you know about the "pmount-hal" command? It basically uses HAL to work out a n