Unmounting DVD/CDROM

[Gilbert Sullivan]

On 10/04/2011 01:58 PM, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> 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
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Maybe install pmount and use that? It's what I've been doing.