'Safely Remove' doesn't umount

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Jul 29 13:05:51 UTC 2006


On Saturday 29 July 2006 12:55, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Friday 28 July 2006 22:03, David Fletcher wrote:
> > On Friday 28 July 2006 21:39, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > The desktop icon for my pen-drive has 'Safely Remove' on the menu, but
> > > selecting that doesn't umount it, and there is no other entry to do so.
> > > Are others seeing the same?
> > >
> > > Anne
> >
> > I'm using FC5 with KDE.
> >
> > Until recently "Safely Remove" used to leave the same i.e. the mounted
> > icon on the desktop, but after "Safely Remove" was used the mount item
> > appeared in the right click menu, so I assumed that it was just the icon
> > that wasn't getting updated.
> >
> > When I tried it just now, the icon has been fixed so as far as I can tell
> > it's working.
> >
> > Dave Fletcher
>
> Correction - the "Mounted" icon still doesn't get changed when I use a
> smart media card with my Zio card reader, but the mount command disappears
> when the device is mounted and reappears after using "safely remove"
>
> The device that does appear to work properly is a ByteStor USB flash memory
> device.
>
That got me curious.  The pen-drive I was using is an Acer, but I have a Disgo 
as well, so I tried that.  Unfortunately it also mounts, but does not umount 
from Safely Remove.

Anne
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