Thunar unmount volume problem

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:12:10 -0700, Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
> 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"). :'(

I'm not talking abount mount -L, I'm talking about device symlinks in
/dev/disk/by-label, which should be created by any recent udev
installation.

>     Which distro are you using?

Debian

Regards,
Tino