Warty and the Pentax

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:48:03PM +0800, John wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am not sure I want this behaviour for _any_ user. Let's say my system 
>>is ubuntu.unwired.lan. It's a big box, supporting lots of users who boot 
>>their lesser boxes and start X:
>>X -query ubuntu.unwired.lan
> 
> 
> In this scenario, you might disable this setting by default.  This isn't
> quite the common case, though.

That is true. I was hoping you'd say it wouldn't mount for remote users. 
That would be a sensible default.

> 
> 
>>I should also mention I had to be root to unmount it (no entry for it in 
>>fstab).
> 
> 
> Right-click on the icon and select "unmount" (or "eject").
> 

I was at the commandline, didn't think of the GUI.

umount doesn't.
eject does (/dev/sda and /dev/sda1 both), but says it couldn't open the 
device.

btw I think /dev/sda is correct, as I recall it unmounts all partitions.

I suspect that one some hardware eject may fail: a friend of mine with 
the same disk enclosuer and drive finds the scsi disk changes for 
consecutive mounts, sd{a,b,c} etc. Happens with his camera.

I have one machine here where it happes too, just don't recall which.

The countermeasure is to
ecject /dev/sda
each time. I suspect for this to work it has to be run by root so as to 
open the device.