Lanny Marcus wrote: > 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. > > You are correct we could use konqueror, we use kde, to unmount but if a CD/DVD is mounted correctly to allow a user to unmount why can't a USB memory device ?