Re: device mounting and umounting

[Richard Hult <rhult hem2 passagen se>]

> I have 1.0 and am testing the device management features of gmc. If you
> "rescan mountable devices" from the desktop menu, gmc will check the /mnt
> directory and put the devices it finds there on the desktop. They all
> have "mount/eject" options on their menus, and a double click will mount
> the device automaticly. Very nice. 
> 
> Now mounting a CD works fine, but when I go to unmount it I recieve
> the error message "umount: /dev/hdc is not in fstab (and you are not
> root)."

gmc scans /etc/fstab, not /mnt. The version you have does not follow
symlinks in /dev, so you might want to change the /dev/cdrom in your
/etc/fstab to the actual device that /dev/cdrom links to. Or wait
for the next release, because this is fixed in cvs :)

Richard