[nflug] Flushing a USB drive (and mounting a second partition from my desktop)

[Cyber Source]

udev should handle the second partition as it does the first. Have a 
look in your /etc/fstab file for a conflicting entry relative to the 
partition that's not automounting, you most likely have a conflicting 
entry in there with the "noauto" option. I'm a gnome guy but I'm sure if 
you right click on the icon in kde, you'll get a eject/unmount option 
for the drive just like in windows.

Joe wrote:
> I have a USB 250GB hard disk with two partitions on it.  One is for
> Windoze and one for Linux.
>
> When I plug it into the usb socket, kubuntu/kde puts an icon on my
> desktop for the first partition on the drive (which happens to be the
> windows one).
>
> I can mount the second partition (Linux) manually using sudo mount
> /dev/sdb2 /media/linusb
>
> * How can I get the second partition to mount just like the first one
> does - with no fuss?
>
> * When I want to unplug the drive, how do I flush it (assure that all
> writes have completed)?  For the Windoze partition, I just right-click
> on the desktop disk icon and select "safely remove".
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe
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