Thunar unmount volume problem

[Tino Keitel]

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.

Regards,
Tino