My apologies for the lack of information. Let me give another shot at it: To start, I shall give some information about my external HDD (see Bug attachments: fdisk on external HDD) In brief, a 300 GB disk, with a primary partition of 150 GB in NTFS and 150 GB in FAT32.
First I place my laptop on the table and next to it I place my external HDD. Then I connect my laptop with the external HDD through a USB-cable. After that I fire up my external HDD, and when the external HDD is spinning at operation speed, I fire up my laptop. My laptop then boots Xubuntu 8.04.1 (Linux Druif 2.6.24-18-generic #1 SMP Wed May 28 20:27:26 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux) and I login with my user name and password. On my desktop I see both partitions, of my external HDD, with there corresponding labels. When I right click on one of those partitions, I see that the option "mount" as well as "eject" are active. (Like in Bug attachment: Both options with partition #). If I left click twice on one of those partitions, I get a thunar-window with a list of the files and folders of the chosen partition, just as you would expect and the partition is mounted. If I then return to my desktop and right click on the partition icon, and chose the "eject" option I get what's described in my bug description at Step 4: a pop-up window "Eject Failed - Unable to eject "BACKUP" : An unknown error occured" (where BACKUP is the label of one of my partitions) and thunar-windows of every partition of my external HDD. So I have done some additional testing and I have come up with following results: * Mounting a partition of my external HDD Via left clicking twice on icon on desktop: works Via right clicking on icon on desktop and choosing "mount": works Via terminal command "sudo mount /dev/sdb1": fails -> Error message "mount: can't find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab" * Unmounting a partition of my external HDD Via terminal command "sudo umount /dev/sdb1": works * Ejecting my external HDD Via right clicking on icon on desktop and choosing "eject": fails -> Error window "Eject Failed - Unable to eject ' ': An unknown error occured" (with partition's label between the ' ') -> all partitions are of my external HDD are mounted. -> thunar-windows of every partition of my external HDD. Via terminal command "sudo eject /dev/sdb": fails -> No error message -> all partitions are of my external HDD are mounted. -> thunar-windows of every partition of my external HDD. Via terminal command "gksu thunar" and right click "eject": fails -> Error window "Eject Failed - Unable to eject ' ': An unknown error occured" (with partition's label between the ' ') -> all partitions are of my external HDD are mounted. -> thunar-windows as user of every partition of my external HDD and thunar-windows as root of every partition of my external HDD And the answer to your question who owns the drive/partition: See Bug attachments "ls -l of drive and partitions". In brief: the root owns the drive and partitions. I hope I have the information you asked for, and if you need anything else, just ask ;) ** Attachment added: "fdisk on external HDD" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16228102/fdisk_External_HDD.txt -- [Hardy A6] remote HDD: Thunar's eject failes, Terminal works https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200936 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
