KDE: 'safely remove' does not safely remove

[Paul Smith]

On 11/6/06, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> 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.  ??

I do not know whether it matters, but recently the package eject was
updated by yum.

Paul