From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H2saP-0002Dw-QJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:10:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l05H8H4O014418; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:08:17 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l05H5B0M001674 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:05:12 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so13159359nfb for ; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:05:11 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=uqISB9eN0uzsOXtIPJHTFc0OrgVHWFDY8GIFtskqsecY2sIClCCw7KA5QD5G423n+/kXGtPWtq4yd/1y0rnB+YSy2EhmkED+UZYNkyawT45efGrrVsWgknVfeeHHo6/7t8n/YPChZG1jIan8RWWxbPQfoVgGj+LP7gNekLSIEwE= Received: by 10.82.167.5 with SMTP id p5mr2575423bue.1168016710737; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:05:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.126.14 with HTTP; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:05:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640701050905p73d922cdhb99e37ec9d3c86cc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:05:10 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] external USB harddrive In-Reply-To: <459D64D6.2000609@lockie.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <459C9066.3000804@lockie.ca> <20070104085926.1c46dc99@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <459D64D6.2000609@lockie.ca> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2214b42fcc029f87 X-Archives-Salt: e67a821c-3bc0-4a34-a416-3b8d51c2ac48 X-Archives-Hash: a0e69ac051b2f17cd36b9f8a63340071 On 1/4/07, James Lockie wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:28:06 -0500, James Lockie wrote: > > > > > >> 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. > >> > > > > You may need to add it to /etc/pmount.allow, as described in man pmount. > > > I don't think pmount is installed/needed. Maybe not "needed", but highly "recommended", at least by me. I suggest merging it. > > > > > # emerge -p pmount > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N ] sys-apps/pmount-0.9.13 USE="crypt hal" Ok, so how are you mounting the drive under KDE? ivman? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list