KDE: 'safely remove' does not safely remove

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em Domingo 05 Novembro 2006 20:01, Paul Smith escreveu:
> Dear All
>
> 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?
>

Do you wait for the pendrive icon vanishes from desktop or konqueror after 
clicking "safely remove"? It may take some time to flush the pending data 
write operations to the pendrive. It's safe to remove it only when the it's 
icon disappear (i.e., when it's automatically unmounted).

[]'s
Marcelo