Answer by Pablo A for Why do I need root privileges to umount a drive at the...
Current answers are deprecated. Try: gio mount --unmount *mounted location* get the current mounted partitions with for example: lsblk | grep media
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The situation might have changed -- in current Ubuntu 10.04 umount works without sudo for USB drives. Generally I think that the command gvfs-mount -u /media/the_device (gvfs-mount is in the gvfs-bin...
View ArticleAnswer by Marius Gedminas for Why do I need root privileges to umount a drive...
Nautilus doesn't unmount the device directly; it talks over DBus to a system daemon (udisks-daemon) and asks it to unmount. The daemon checks if you're allowed to do that, by contacting another system...
View ArticleWhy do I need root privileges to umount a drive at the command line, but not...
When I insert a thumb drive, media card, or USB hard drive, to unmount it via the command line, I need to use: sudo umount /media/the_device But, I can unmount the device in a file manager like...
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