"Safely Remove Drive" command gone in F17?

[Tim Flink]

On Wed, 16 May 2012 09:20:25 -0400
Jonathan Kamens <jik at kamens.us> wrote:

> 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?

This should be fixed with a new update to gnome-shell etc. There is a
notification that pops up if the USB drive is not safe to remove.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-7859

Tim
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