GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 661625
"Unmount", "Eject" and "Safely Remove Drive"
Last modified: 2011-10-13 08:46:59 UTC
I've commented on Bug 598690 (as Comment 28) but didn't been noticed. I repeat here: Context menu for an USB pendrive shows "Unmount", "Eject" and "Safely Remove" There must be all 3 options available. One of main advantages of linux over windows is its much more advanced behaviour on block devices. For example, in linux we can have (and use) more than one partition on a flash drive. Naturally, its disconnect actions must be more advanced than windows and emulating windows is not proper. "Unmount" must be present for unmounting the exact device without affecting other partitions, also remaining able to mount again. "Eject" must be present only for optical devices to remove the media and therefore force an unmount for that device. "Safe Remove" must be present for powering down the parent device (the composite usb device) and therefore unmount all its child devices. Note: This doesn't mean when we have "Eject" for a CD/DVD, there is no need for "Unmount"; Because a lot of times we need unmount the disk while keeping it in the drive. Linux users have not to be in windows limitations! I see it is good in Ubuntu 9.1 with a few bugs. In 10.04 and later I hate the disconnect behavior of gnome as a linux user! Please revert to that state.
No need to duplicate bug reports - just creates more work for everybody. Please don't do that. And no idea what you mean by "did not get noticed" - we don't comment everything all of the time as every comment creates bugmail. Closing as duplicate... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 598690 ***