On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Philip Manuel <phil at zomojo.com> wrote: <snip> >> Are we talking about USB Memory here? If so, I have not seen this >> issue. I've never used USB Memory while logged in as root. I'm using >> CentOS 5 (32 bit). <snip> > Yes the usb stick/memory mounts correctly, but then they are not allowed > to unmount it, using for example umount /media/device We are using > Centos5.2 64bit I see that you are using 64 bit, I'm using 32 bit, but I doubt that this would work differently, between the 2 versions of the OS. As Mark (mhr) wrote, if you use GNOME, just right click the icon, to unmount the USB stick.