Thunar unmount volume problem

[Todd and Margo Chester]

Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:32:09 -0700, Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>> Peter Smerdon wrote:
>>> Todd and Margo Chester <ToddAndMargo at verizon.net> writes:
>>>  
>>>>>  From /etc/fstab:
>>>>> /dev/sdc1        /mnt/TripStick      vfat 
>>>>> pamconsole,noatime,sync,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,rw,users 
>>>>> 0 0
>>>>>
>>>>> So, fstab (sdc1) disagrees with mtab (sde1).
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. all this would go away if "mount" would
>>>>> respect vfat "labels"
>>>>>
>>> This might not be you issue, but shouldn't your fstab entry be `user'
>>> and not `users'?
>>>
>> In my fstab, I was shooting for this (from "man mount":
>>
>>         If any user should be able to unmount,  then
>>         use users instead of user in the fstab line.
>>
>> My problem was that I have a script to mount three
>> sticks that I use based on the stick's label.  I
>> have to do this because the kernel will assign
>> the "dev" (/dev/sdc1) in order that I insert the
>> sticks and not by the mount point in fstab.
> 
> I don't know what your exact problem is, but udev creates unique device
> symlinks in /dev/disk/by-label. This works at least for FAT, ext3 and
> XFS.

Hi Tino,

    My CentOS5 doesn't support mount by label with vfat (the "-L"
option in "mount"). :'(

    Which distro are you using?

-T