Unmounting DVD/CDROM

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:44:40 +0300
Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hurri at syk.fi> wrote:

> 
> Greetings.
> 
> In short: how does one unmount a DVD/CDROM as a regular user in XFCE
> without ejecting the disk?
> 
> The long story: I burn my backups on optical media. After an iso
> filesystem has been created on the disk (when the first backup has
> been burned on the disk), when I insert the disk into the drive, XFCE
> automatically mounts the disk. Additional backups can't be burned on
> the disk when it is mounted. Right-clicking on the icon only gives the
> possibility to eject the disk. From the command line it is possible to
> unmount using gvfs-mount -u , but this asks for root password, which
> is an overkill for the task. So what's the correct way to unmount as a
> regular user?

Actually, gvfs-mount -u (or exo-mount -u) is the only way at the
moment. I am aware that a lot of people want unmount as a separate
feature in addition to eject and I will add it back in upcoming
versions of Thunar.

  - Jannis