GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 693946
Missed safely remove option, eject does not remove power
Last modified: 2013-03-19 08:51:24 UTC
In Nautilus 3.4.2 (Ubuntu 12.04, 3.4.2-0ubuntu6) there was Safely remove option for any drive. In Nautilus 3.4.2 (Ubuntu 12.10, 3.5.90.really.3.4.2-0ubuntu4.1) it is missed. Please bring it back. Removing powered device from USB port is unsafe operation. It is not sufficient to unmount/eject drive, it must be completely powered off before removal. This bug exists in Fedora 18, OpenSuSe 12.2, Ubuntu 12.10 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1127135).
Instead of "Safely Remove", which do you see? "Unmount" or "Eject"?
Hello, António! I see "Eject" option. If I click it, device icon disappears from tree and there is no info window like "It's now safe to remove ...", USB flash remains powered (LED is on). I tried 4 Transcend flashes, 1 ADATA, 2 no-name (SMI and ChipsBnk). Moreover Nautilus does not spin down (stop) my external USB-SATA Tsunami HDD. It's DANGEROUS for my (and anybody's) data.
For USB HDD I see unmount.
Thanks for the quick and detailed response. With relation to the external HDD, I think it's bug 676321. I have this problem with my external HDD too. I'll leave this open for the other devices, which show "Eject".
I tested 4 flashes and 1 USB HDD on 4 PCs - you can read my test report (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet /ccc?key=0Ao5e713Ig9g_dHJBalI2b09TQ2ZNOHJOQnhFbEVXaXc). The conclusion is very bad: I tested Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 13.04, Fedora 18, OpenSuse 12.3. All they can't remove power from USB drives like it was in GNOME 2 and previous versions of GNOME 3.
This looks the same as bug 676321, but I don't think Nautilus changed behavior recently wrt. to how it handles those options. I'll investigate further. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 676321 ***
(In reply to comment #5) > I tested 4 flashes and 1 USB HDD on 4 PCs - you can read my test report > (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet > /ccc?key=0Ao5e713Ig9g_dHJBalI2b09TQ2ZNOHJOQnhFbEVXaXc). > > The conclusion is very bad: I tested Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 13.04, Fedora > 18, OpenSuse 12.3. All they can't remove power from USB drives like it was in > GNOME 2 and previous versions of GNOME 3. I made a mistake - Ubuntu 12.04 is not affected by this bug. Thank you, Cosimo. But bug 676321 is only about HDD, here I wrote about USB flash too - in Nautilus 3.4.2 it was powered off before removal.
Nautilus doesn't distinguish between USB flash drives and USB rotating drives, hence the duplicate.
OK, I understood.