"Safely Remove Drive" command gone in F17?

[cornel panceac]

2012/5/16 cornel panceac <cpanceac at gmail.com>

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> 2012/5/16 Jonathan Kamens <jik at kamens.us>
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>>  I have an USB thumb drive with an LED that lights up when it is
>> activated.
>>
>> On Windows, when I am done using it, I can "safely remove" the device, at
>> which point the LED turns off and I know it is safe to unplug it from the
>> system.
>>
>> I could be remembering wrong, but I thought there was an equivalent
>> "safely remove" command in Fedora. However, on my F17 system, I can no
>> longer find this command anywhere, e.g., it isn't on the menu when I
>> right-click on the drive's icon, and neither umounting nor ejecting the
>> drive from that menu causes the LED to turn off. This, understandably,
>> makes me uncomfortable about yanking it out of the system.
>>
>> So (a) what is the right way to completely deactivate a USB device, so
>> that the device knows and tells the user that it has been deactivated, and
>> (b) is there a bug here that I should be filing in bugzilla?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>   jik
>>
>>
>>
> that is interesting. i plugin a 4GB usb stick, and it's mounted and i can
> see it in "Computer" as "$.0 GB Drive: $.0 GB Volume". if i right click and
> "Eject", the label changes to "Drive" , but the LED is on. If i right click
> on "Drive" and eject, "Drive" is still there but the LED is reset.
> i don't understand what's going on here.
>

s/$/4 :)
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