"Safely Remove Drive" command gone in F17?

Samuel Sieb samuel at sieb.net
Fri May 18 19:01:48 UTC 2012


Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> There is a reason why it's called "Safely Remove" on Windows. That terminology
> means something to users. "Unmount" and "Eject" do not, at least not for an USB
> drive ("Eject" at least means something for a CD/DVD drive).
>
I just saw on a Windows 7 machine that the menu item is labeled "Eject" for a 
USB drive, so Gnome is not actually doing anything different.


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