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   From: Laszlo Lebrun    
   Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:18:03 +0100   
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   Florian Diesch wrote:   
      
   > "Laszlo Lebrun"  wrote:   
   >    
   >> Florian Diesch wrote:   
   >>> Michel Firholz  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:07:01 +0000, SINNER wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Then you are running as root or changed a default as only root can   
   >>>>> mount / unmount volumes in Ubuntu   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> Nope.   
   >>>> Only root can mount / unmount *fixed* volumes in Ubuntu.   
   >>>> If a device is removable, you can unmount it without being root,   
   >>>> everything else were stupid.   
   >>>   
   >>> It's not about fixed or removable. A user can only unmount volumes he   
   >>> has mounted. Fixed volumes usually are mounted at boot time by root so   
   >>> ordinary users can't unmount them. Removable drives usually are   
   >>> mounted by users, either manually from CLI or some GUI or   
   >>> automatically by HAL or something similar, so that very same user can   
   >>> unmount them (but others can't).   
   >>>   
   >> you seem to lack some consistency, do you?:   
   >    
   > I don't think so.   
   >    
   >>>>> "as only root can mount / unmount volumes in Ubuntu".   
   >    
   > That was written by SINNER, not by me.   
   >    
   Ups! Sorry, i need new goggles.   
      
   :-(   
      
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