Hello!

I have a usb key drive I use in Linux to store data. The problem is that when I log in to Gnome, I have two icons, "removable" and "removable2." These two icons WILL NOT go away. If I plug in my key drive, a "removable3" is added to the desktop. If I restart the PC with the key drive attached, a "removable3" and "removable4" will be added to the desktop and the process begins again, so I do not want to restart the PC with the key attached. I have tried right-clicking on the icon and selecting "Unmount Volume" or right-clicking on the desktop and unchecking the disk, but all that happens is a little spike in my CPU meter and the icons remain on the desktop. I have done this both in and out of root access. I have tried deleting the icon, but I get an error message saying, "You cannot delete a volume icon." Any suggestions or solutions? Any will be appreciated. Thanks!

Billy

Post your /etc/fstab, it's a start.

This seems to happen alot, on my system, I occasionally use a Maxtor external drive that has two partitions; "Dos" and "Linux".

Now whenever I insert the USB disk, I get my old friends "Dos" & "Linux". Somewhere in the system this info is being retained for no apparent reason. I've just been too lazy to deal with it.


John

You can open a console window, su to root and force a lazy unmount to the device using:

umount -l /mnt/device

or what-have-you...

I finally got one to disappear. I somehow tricked MDK in believing I never plugged the key in. Then, I sent files to one of the existing icons and then opened the drive to ferify the files were there. Once the files were verified, I closed the window and then unplugged the key and all but one icon disappeared.

Oh well. It worked! Thanks for helping.

It sounds like your /etc/mtab may not be getting cleared. I had this same problem once. I was quite surprised one day to type "mount" and see that I had the same partition mounted 5 times.

Of course I didn't really, but mtab wasn't getting cleared at power off, and the mounts kept coming back after a reboot and duplicating themselves.

Post your fstab, and your mtab too, while we are at it.

When I type in:

in the console, I get: Permission denied. I'll also mention I was in the root account. Is that what I type or did I do it wrong? Thanks!

Try "cat /etc/fstab" or "less /etc/fstab" instead to list the file contents.