usb device safe removal

[AirportEngineer69]

I'm ticked. I was tricked into upgrading from Hard to Jaunty by a poorly worded question. Now I've got problems with access to SU functions.

Most pressing is: How do I safely remove a USB thumbdrive without shutting down the computer?

How do I get to my SU functions in Dolphin? Where did they disappear to?

Why have files on my Hardy based server suddenly become read only for Open Office applications? Even though they are not when using my Windows computers. If I copy them to my local file system with no properties changes they are writable. What gives?

If I can't get answers to these questions over the next week or so, I'll have to reinstall Hardy. So far my study of the Kubuntu docs has been less than informative. Apparently I'm supposed to be a developer to be using Jaunty's superuser features? I certainly don't have the control I'm accustomed to having. I was able to pop into SU mode in Hardy to make settings changes as needed. I can't FIND the SU mode in terminal, let alone Dolphin. Jaunty is essentially unusable as is. Is it KDE4 or Ubuntu 9 that is the issue?

[vinnywright]

Re: usb device safe removal

for removing usb wile in dolphin press F9 (this will open the places panel ) now just rite click the usb device and click safley remove.

dont use su eneymore. it's sudo now for the CLI and kdesudo for a kde app.

IE:

sudo apt-get update

and the sutch.

or

sudo kate /etc/fsab

for root editing.

VINNY

[marcopl]

Re: usb device safe removal

that will be kdesudo kate /etc/fstab

[muzicman0]

Re: usb device safe removal

or, if you REALLY need su, you can

sudo su

I VERY rarely need that, but every once in a while it comes in handy.

mm0

[muzicman0]

Re: usb device safe removal

oh yeah, to remove a device, you can also click on the 'recently plugged in devices' icon in the panel, and once you run your mouse over the device, there is an eject icon that will show up...click it. once it is safe to remove, it will show a green check mark in the panel...at least in RC3 of KDE 4.3 it does. Not sure if 4.2 does the green checkmark thingy...

mm0

[kevinc]

Re: usb device safe removal

If I can't get answers to these questions over the next week or so, I'll have to reinstall Hardy. So far my study of the Kubuntu docs has been less than informative. Apparently I'm supposed to be a developer to be using Jaunty's superuser features? I certainly don't have the control I'm accustomed to having. I was able to pop into SU mode in Hardy to make settings changes as needed. I can't FIND the SU mode in terminal, let alone Dolphin. Jaunty is essentially unusable as is. Is it KDE4 or Ubuntu 9 that is the issue?

There's a big change from KDE3 to 4 and lots of posts that have helpful information. Like KDE3, KDE4 takes a little time to get used to it. For a server, you certainly want stability and reliability and probably something that you are used to using. Do you have some space on one of your computers to try out Jaunty? Karmic is doing well at alpha 3 and will be out by the end of October, less than three months away.

As has been said sudo is very useful, for example,

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install packagename

hope this helps