Unmounting removable media under Gnome

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:11 +0100, Steve Hill wrote:
> Additionally, it appears that the logged in user does not have permission 
> to umount the disc - the only work around seems to be to open a terminal, 
> log in as root and manually umount the device.

False. As of Fedora 7, umount from the command line works just fine

        [davidz at zelda ~]$ mount |grep /dev/scd0
        /dev/scd0 on /media/LOST_S1_DISC2_US type udf (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=500)
        [davidz at zelda ~]$ umount /dev/scd0 
        [davidz at zelda ~]$ mount |grep /dev/scd0
        [davidz at zelda ~]$ sudo /lib/udev/vol_id /dev/scd0 
        ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
        ID_FS_TYPE=udf
        ID_FS_VERSION=
        ID_FS_UUID=
        ID_FS_LABEL=LOST_S1_DISC2_US
        ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=LOST_S1_DISC2_US
        
> Are there any good reasons why Nautilus should not have an option to 
> unmount without ejecting?

Are the any good reasons why CD-burning software can't invoke umount(8)
or do something else themselves? Nautilus-CD-Burner been able to do this
for years...

     David