[CLUE-Tech] fedora umount floppy as root

[James LaRue]

>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:13:16 -0600
>From: David Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>
>To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
>Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] debian versus fedora
>Reply-To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
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>>On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 07:50 AM, James LaRue wrote:
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>>>Fedora seems to require being root at a terminal to unmount a
>>>floppy (which does rather limit Fedora's likelihood of use in a
>>>public computing environment).
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>Missed this the first time round.  Most likely you just need to tweak 
>/etc/fstab.  If you have automount stuff going on it might be harder 
>than that.
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>Dave
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That's interesting. My fstab entry says:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

which seems right. But on occasion, the right-click/eject option simply 
doesn't work, requiring a "umount -l /mnt/floppy". A bug?

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