I have a Nook. When I plug it into the USB port on my system, a window pops up asking what I want to do with the new device. I can open it and access media/nook and move files into and out of the directory.
There’s a button to “Safely dismount Nook” before I unplug it. I use that. Apparently, however, sometimes it doesn’t respond.
Now I have .hal-mtab-lock in my /media folder, along with Nook Main Memory and Nook Main Memory (1) folders. I can’t delete any of them.
How do I a) delete these folders, and b) make sure it actually unmounts the device in the future?
You’re most likely trying to delete them as a regular user. You need to be root.
No, I opened a command line, logged in as root and tried. When I try to delete Nook Main Memory, it says the folder doesn’t exist (though that’s how it shows up when I use ls in /media).
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:36:02 +0000, Roy Preston wrote:
> No, I opened a command line, logged in as root and tried. When I try to
> delete Nook Main Memory, it says the folder doesn’t exist (though that’s
> how it shows up when I use ls in /media).
I also have a nook - but I don’t see this particular issue.
What’s in /media when the device is not connected?
What I typically do is drop to a CLI and just eject the drives (as I have
a microSD card in my Nook as well, it shows up as a second device) - it
usually takes two tries, though.
Also, which DE are you using - GNOME, KDE, or some other - and which
version of openSUSE?
Jim
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Ordinarily there’s nothing /media. My Nook (a recent acquisition) is the only portable device I connect to my computer.
I’m running OpenSuse 11.2 with KDE 4.3.5.
How do you eject the drives?
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:36:02 +0000, Roy Preston wrote:
> Ordinarily there’s nothing /media. My Nook (a recent acquisition) is the
> only portable device I connect to my computer.
>
> I’m running OpenSuse 11.2 with KDE 4.3.5.
>
> How do you eject the drives?
I just use the ‘eject’ command:
eject /dev/sdg; eject /dev/sdh
Usually have to issue it twice. I think if I did it from my GNOME
desktop, it would just work, but I’m an old CLI addict. 
Jim
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On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:18:42 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:36:02 +0000, Roy Preston wrote:
>
>> Ordinarily there’s nothing /media. My Nook (a recent acquisition) is
>> the only portable device I connect to my computer.
>>
>> I’m running OpenSuse 11.2 with KDE 4.3.5.
>>
>> How do you eject the drives?
>
> I just use the ‘eject’ command:
>
> eject /dev/sdg; eject /dev/sdh
>
> Usually have to issue it twice. I think if I did it from my GNOME
> desktop, it would just work, but I’m an old CLI addict.
I should also add that my wife also has a Nook (same oS release, but
GNOME as mine is), and she uses Calibre’s eject function and it works
very well.
Jim
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