Unmounting DVD/CDROM

[Harald Judt]

Am 04.10.2011 19:44, schrieb Jarmo Hurri:
>
> 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?
>
> ---
> Jarmo Hurri

If you're interested and can build thunar yourself, then the attached 
patch will restore the unmount option in thunar. Although it is for 
1.3.0, it should apply on 1.2.x too.

Otherwise, you might think about assigning a hotkey to a script which 
does the un/mounting for you.

Harald

-- 
`Experience is the best teacher.'
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