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I have just installed linux for the 1st time (suse 10) and liking it a lot. I have got it connected to the internet using a usb wireless adapter (something that has put me off trying linux for a long time was the lack of wirless support). My only real problem so far is that my usb flash drive is recognised and mounted automatically when i plug it in and an icon appears on the desktop. The drive works fine but when i have finished using it and and right click to choose the 'unmount' option, i get a message telling me somthing about not having permission as i am not the owner and somthing about "fstab". I am having to wait until the pc shuts down before removing the device as i don't want to corrupt the memory. Is this a bug in suse 10 or am i missing something?
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sounds like it wants you to be root,
what happens if you just unplug the device does it work ok ?
cheers
anyweb
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its a bug in suse 10, i had the same problem with my usb stick, couldn't find a solution, so just worked out if you wait 30seconds after last use you can just unplug it
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2005-12-15, 09:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 2005-12-15, 09:42 PM by kingttx.)
Jazzman,
Please post your /etc/fstab and the error message, and let's see if that shows what is going on.
Tom
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I have the same problem too.. It's a suse 10 bug.. You can log in as root and type umount /media/"the name of your device" .. if you don't get any errors you are OK...