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In Xubuntu 12.10, I can mount external disks that are attached and they appear under /media/$username/$diskname. I can unmount them by going to the desktop, right-clicking, waiting 6 seconds or so, and clicking Eject Volume - or by opening gnome-disks and clicking on stop on the disk icon.

However, I'd far prefer to simply run umount /media/$username/$diskname from the command-line. This currently requires sudo rights, or for me to add each disk to the fstab - since the whole point of this is automatically mounting previously-unseen disks, that won't work generally.

How can I configure the rights/etc to be able to umount automatically mounted disks? I am the right user after all...

David Fraser
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The quickest way is to add your user in /etc/group under the group sudo which will give you the proper right to run sudo umount /media/$username/$diskname

If you don't want to enter your password, you can define a special rule with visudo:
$username ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/umount

Cyril Laury
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