From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:20:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7573e9640701040720v31038f49g98ecd3f540aad9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459C9066.3000804@lockie.ca>
On 1/3/07, James Lockie <bjlockie@lockie.ca> wrote:
> Does anyone have one of these? :-)
> It mounts when I connect it but a user can't unmount it.
> My USB memory stick and USB card reader work fine.
> It is only the hard drive that I can't unmount as a user.
> I don't have or want an /etc/fstab entry for it, I should be able to
> configure KDE to handle it.
So it mounts fine, but you can't unmount it? I've seen this happen,
and fixed it by telling konqueror not to keep any instances
pre-loaded. The problem seems to be that if you browse the drive
using konqueror, it chdir()'s to the drive, and stays there, so any
attempts to unmount it report "busy".
Konqueror->Settings->Configure Konqueror->Performance->Preloading
-Richard
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-04 5:28 [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive James Lockie
2007-01-04 8:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-04 20:34 ` James Lockie
2007-01-05 17:05 ` Richard Fish
2007-01-04 13:30 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)
2007-01-04 20:37 ` James Lockie
2007-01-04 15:20 ` Richard Fish [this message]
2007-01-04 17:13 ` Uwe Thiem
2007-01-04 19:35 ` Neil Bothwick
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