KDE: 'safely remove' does not safely remove
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Nov 6 03:50:01 UTC 2006
Paul Smith wrote:
> On 11/5/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The option of "safely remove" for removing pen drives is not working
>> properly here. To safely remove my pen drive I have to use the command
>> line through the command 'umount /dev/sda1'. Any ideas how to repair
>> that?
>
> I mean that KDE "safely remove" is not safe in the sense that some
> data is lost, specially in the case one has just copied a large (say,
> 100 Mb) file to the pen drive.
Afaik, KDE simply uses the "eject" command, and eject (supposedly) does
a umount first too. ??
-- Rex
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