Mounting Trouble

[Blackwolf]

Hello to all the Ultimate Edition users in the on here i am a newbie & am looking for help . I have a usb drive partitioned & i am having trouble unmounting it.,when i press safely remove drive it says it is busy.I was able to unmount one at a time in 2. 5 but not now in 2.6 so what is wrong.

[Wildlinux]

Sorry a bit more info maxtor drive 1&2 is the partitioned drive storage 1 is another usb drive which will mount & unmount & win7 is my main drive with Ultimate Edition Which is giving the same trouble.

[Admin-Amir]

Hello Wildlinux.

Please install from synaptic this packages:
USB mount
Mount manager

[Wildlinux]

Thanks for the suggestion but it did not work i did as you said & added usb mount through synaptic package manger . I also added Disk mounter To top Panel with no affect.[http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/4340/screenshot1t.png]

[dathem]

Thanks for the suggestion but it did not work i did as you said & added usb mount through synaptic package manger . I also added Disk mounter To top Panel with no affect.[imhttp://img237.imageshack.us/img237/4340/screenshot1t.pngg]

Hello Wildlinux, I am unable to see you posted image link, get a 404 error.

[bpollen]

I ran across a problem that is at least superficially similar...

Here is the quote from Andrei (Andrew) on Webupd8:

It seems there's a bug in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx which affects USB devices which do not automount when plugged-in meaning the device isn't displayed on the desktop and also doesn't show up in Nautilus.


I upgraded to Lucid a long time ago and this bug wasn't occurring but today when trying to plug in an USB device (I actually tried several devices - a music player and several USB memory sticks) they simply won't automount.

After some research it seems this is caused (weird, I know...) by the BIOS "Legacy Floppy" setting being enabled (it seems it's related to this). So to fix it, all I had to do is restart the computer and next to the "Floppy" setting in the BIOS I selected "Disabled" instead of "Legacy Floppy" - problem solved, as soon as Ubuntu booted, automount was working again and my USB devices were showing up in Nautilus again.

Hopefully this will help those of you having the same issue as I did.

Don't know if it helps, but another possible fix in any event.

P.S.: I fixed the URL for the screenshot you listed above.

[kRu_ZaDeR]

Seems like this a Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx problem. I have this same glitch on my Ubuntu Lucid
on my other usb hard disk partition and my Ultimate 2.6 on another usb hard disk partition.
Anyways I tried to follow the solutions offered here i.e. install usb mount, disable legacy floppy which
I don't even have in my BIOS. Unfortunately no dice. Just a sad state of affairs for the new edition.

[Admin-Amir]

PPL - Let me go around here with this issue.
1- Did you have let your User permission from System=>Administration=>User&Groups?
2- Here are the packages that has to be install on your system:

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Now please see if it solved you problem.
Thank you.

[kRu_ZaDeR]

Hello Gents, looks like I solved this problem with a little digging by modifying some
system settings. I have restored the 'Umount' property in the Context Menus instead
of the 'Safely Remove' for USB Hard Disks with numerous partitions. Here's how I
went about doing it:

1. On top menu bar goto System --> Preferences --> System Settings
2. A Systems Settings Window will pop-up
3. On the Systems Settings Window click on the 'Advanced' Tab (the other one is 'General')
4. On the section 'Advance User Settings' look for 'Removable Devices' and click on it
5. This will take you to Removable Devices - System Settings Window.
6. Click 'Enable automatic mounting of removable media'

And that's all I did. Below these settings you will find more options to tweak it to your liking.
Wallah the 'Umount' property in the Right-click context menu is now visible!

Enjoy!

P.S. These maybe a KDE application and you have to install KUbuntu or KDE via Ultimatix.

[2hot6ft2]

Thank you kRu_ZaDeR for sharing how you fixed the issue so that others will be able to fix it as well.
And you are correct it is part of KDE 4 but it can be installed by itself with

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sudo apt-get install systemsettings

It requires no additional packages in 2.6. Synaptic info. for it shown below.

KDE 4 System Settings

System Settings is an improved user interface for configuring the desktop
and other aspects of the system.

This package is part of the KDE 4 base workspace module.

Nice find