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Bug 618905 - [regression] Misleading options when handling pendrives. Cannot umount anymore.
[regression] Misleading options when handling pendrives. Cannot umount anymore.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 598690
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-05-17 17:43 UTC by leonardo.rolla
Modified: 2010-05-18 07:14 UTC
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Description leonardo.rolla 2010-05-17 17:43:27 UTC 
When the user right-clicks on a pendrive at the Desktop, they are given two options:
Eject
Safely Remove

It is not at all clear to the newbie what these are doing and why they would be different at all.

Besides, for the experienced user, the simple "Unmount" option no longer exists.

Further, and the partition being "Ejected" or "Safely Removed" are misleading actions:
 - Nautilus won't "eject" my USB.
 - If the user regrets later on and wants to reopen the pendrive, they can't. With Safely Remove it even desappears from /dev, and with Eject you still get /dev/sdn but not /dev/sdnx

(Forwarding downstream froum Ubuntu)
Comment 1 Martin Pitt 2010-05-18 07:14:56 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 598690 ***