[Solved] Looking for GUI Eject/Unmount tool

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lyallp · Post by **lyallp** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:21 am

I use Fluxbox.

I am looking for a little GUI tool that will allow me to eject USB devices, similar to the Windows little green/grey thingy in the systray.

At this stage, I am using 'gksudo -u root umount /mnt/usb/device' to 'unmount' the devices, but that gives me no feedback as to whether it succeeded or not, or as to how long the actual sync takes.

Is there a tool that does this?

Assistance greatly appreciated.

yabbadabbadont · Post by **yabbadabbadont** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:44 am

Gkrellm can do this if you already use it.
Adesklets has a desklet that can do this.
mountapp is a classic window maker applet.
wmvolman is also a window maker applet and its description is "a dockapp that displays and (un)mounts hotplug devices and removable media."

Edit: there are more, but those are all in portage.

See also:
http://dockapps.org/file.php/id/274
http://dockapps.org/file.php/id/260
http://dockapps.org/file.php/id/237
http://dockapps.org/file.php/id/231

lyallp · Post by **lyallp** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:51 am

Thank you, I will have to emerge them all and give each a whack.

lyallp · Post by **lyallp** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:13 am

Edit: New notes on mountapp

Could not find any mounting capability that was obvious enough to see in gkrellm

Adesklets, I could not convince the mount desklet to display anything and it seemed to insist on using the curses installer.

mountapp only allows 20 mount points, I have a few more than that, and my usb mount points are past the magic 20 - looks like I will have to fiddle with it some...

And finally, x11-plugins/wmvolman-0.9 (masked by: missing keyword) - ie, who knows what keyword it's expecting, it wont emerge. I tried ~x86.

Thanks for the web link though, I will dig further through those. There must be something out there that approaches the windows usb eject systray thingy for simplicity.

yabbadabbadont · Post by **yabbadabbadont** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:27 am

If you have entries in your /etc/fstab that include the "user" mount option, then you can configure gkrellm, through the file system builtin, to mount/umount them.

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/dev/sdb1               /mnt/usb        vfat            user,noauto,utf8,umask=007,gid=users    0 0
/dev/hdb                /mnt/cdrom      udf,iso9660     user,noauto,ro                          0 0
/dev/hdc                /mnt/dvd        udf,iso9660     user,noauto,ro                          0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy     auto            user,noauto                             0 0

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NathanZachary · Post by **NathanZachary** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:26 am

The gnome-mount and gnome-volume-manager will do it, but they pull in various gnome dependencies. Considering you're using fluxbox, I'm going to assume you like a lean system.

lyallp · Post by **lyallp** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:12 am

Thanks for the replies,

I do use fluxbox, but I do also have both KDE and Gnome installed.
I just like fluxbox for it's speed. Fluxbox is up and running in about 1 second, last time I looked, Gnome and KDE both took about a similar time as Windows to wind up a desktop.
I have had a renewed fiddle with gkrellm.
I turned everything off except filesystem monitoring, I have grown to like it!
After figuring out I need to start my own copy of ivman as well as a system wide copy, I only have one problem left now.
I have a couple of machines in my LAN, which are windoze.
I cannot mount them with gkrellm as I have credentials files in my /etc/fstab.

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//another-pc/another-d	/mnt/another-pc/d	smbfs 	user,fmask=0770,dmask=0770,umask=0007,iocharset=iso8859-1,credentials=/etc/samba/private/auth.another-pc.userid,noauto,gid=smb,quiet	   0 0

My problem lies in the fact I have made the credentials file readable only by root (for obvious security reasons).
I have tried making the '/bin/mount' executable setuid root, I am hesitant to make gkrellm setuid root (at this point).
Maybe I might run it as sudo root...
I am not sure how best to overcome this issue.

lyallp · Post by **lyallp** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:25 am

Ok, solved my mounting the samba shares with credentials.

I updated my /etc/sudoers file to allow me to execute mount, umount without a password.

I then use custom mount/unmount commands on the samba share mounts, so the mount command can read the passwords.

Works a treat.

Now, I have my auto hiding slit in fluxbox, with a list of mountable filesystems (keys, usb disks, shares) which I can click on and mount/unmount easily.

Thanks.