kubuntu-users Digest, Vol 19, Issue 38

[tudza]

Well, we keep getting closer.  This is not the full auto one usually 
expects from USB Flash device use, but "pmount sdb1" (in my case) lets 
me read and write to /media/sdb1 no problem.

That will certainly do until something better comes along.

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> Mandag 21 august 2006 03:56, skrev tudza:
>   
>> Indeed this is what I expected to happen, but it did not, which is why I
>> was asking about it.
>>
>> Following advice from another user I was able to mount the device, see the
>> contents, and move them to my hard drive.  Unfortuneatly, there are other
>> annoying problems with that.  I can not copy content to the device, nor can
>> I give myself permission to do so using sudo, kdesu etc.
>>
>>
>> What I would like to know then is, how do I get it to work such that I plug
>> the device in and see it in Konqueror and/or as an icon on my Kubuntu
>> desktop?  Are there packages that need installing using Adept?
>>     
> [cut]
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> If you, after connecting the device try to run, as your user, without sudo:
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> $ pmount-hal sda1
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> Does it mount? Does it return an error message?
> If that didn't work you can try:
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> $pmount sda1
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> To unmount try:
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> $ pumount sda1
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