GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 675542
No option to detach removable media such as portable USB HDD
Last modified: 2014-01-18 12:38:44 UTC
On gnome disk utility there's no way to detach (umount + power off) a removable media, like a Portable USB HDD, seems that this problem is related with the use of udisks2 (worked fine on 3.2), the portable hdd not being set as removable or something like this, on nautilus theres an option to umount the media, but the disk wont spin-down. theres a workaround to remove the disk: umount all the partitions on the disk then execute $ udisks --detach /dev/sdx
Yup, this was removed in udisks2. Could be we actually want to add back this feature so keeping this bug open.
Fixed, see http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-disk-utility/commit/?id=767510d06ec844e330a5ac3a8057394735e3d39f http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gnome-disks-power-off-drive-1.png http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gnome-disks-power-off-drive-2.png http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gnome-disks-power-off-drive-3.png This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
*** Bug 693944 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug exists in "gnome-disk-utility 3.8.0 UDisks 2.1.0 (built against 2.1.0)" from Fedora 19 - it does not spin-down my USB-HDD (Seagate ST9750420A in USB Tsunami e-data 2500 enclosure), but "udisks --detach /dev/sdb" and Disks 3.0.2-2ubuntu7 did.
This bug exists in "gnome-disk-utility 3.8.0 UDisks 2.1.0 (built against 2.1.0)" in Fedora 19, OpenSuse Tumbleweed and Ubuntu 13.04 (with ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3) - it does not spin-down my USB-HDD (Seagate ST9750420A in USB Tsunami e-data 2500 enclosure), but "udisks --detach /dev/sdb" did.
This bug exists in "gnome-disk-utility 3.8.2 UDisks 2.1.0 (built against 2.1.0)" Ubuntu 13.10 - it does not spin-down my USB-HDD (Seagate ST9750420A in USB Tsunami e-data 2500 enclosure), but "udisks --detach /dev/sdb" did.
Link to Ubuntu bug - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/1239087
This bug exists in "gnome-disk-utility 3.8.2 UDisks 2.1.0 (built against 2.1.0)" Ubuntu 13.10 - it does not spin-down my USB-HDD (Seagate ST9750420A in USB Tsunami e-data 2500 enclosure), but "udisks --detach /dev/sdb" did. Did you tested your software, David? Do you need testers?
Bug exists in gnome-disk-utility 3.10.0 UDisks 2.1.1 (built against 2.1.1). Tested in Mageia 4 (gnome-disk-utility-3.10.0-2.mga4.i586).
Yes, this works with the hardware that I use for testing. The problem is that different hardware needs different ways of shutting down and that we do things differently now from when it worked. Btw, this is not a problem with gnome-disks since the mechanism it's using is in udisks. So this is not the right place to fix it.
Thank you for reply, David! I'll report (or find existing one) udisks-related bug soon.
Udisks-related bug have number https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71802 . And this bug exists in Fedora 20 with gnome-disk-utility 3.10.0 UDisks 2.1.1 (built against 2.1.1) and in Nautilus 3.10.1.
This bug exists in gnome-disk-utility 3.10.0 UDisks 2.1.1 (built against 2.1.1) in Arch - it does not spin-down my USB-HDD (Seagate ST9750420A in USB Tsunami e-data 2500 enclosure), but "udisks --detach /dev/sdb" did. Please fix this bug.