KDE: 'safely remove' does not safely remove

[Paul Smith]

On 11/6/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 14:04 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On 11/6/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.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?
> > > >
> > > > 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).
> > > ----
> > > that was it...OP has stated that it wasn't being automatically mounted
> > > but rather a forced mount via entry in fstab
> >
> > False: the problem was detected while automount option active. To
> > circumvent the problem, I then forced mount via entry in fstab.
> ----
> OK - I am unclear as to what processes you have gone through and when.
>
> Expected behavior is for the user space auto mount when the USB pen
> drive is inserted and for it to be unmounted when 'safely remove' is
> chosen for that device. There should be no need to alter fstab or udev.
>
> If that isn't the case, then the way to report this is through bugzilla
> - http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
>
> Then the developers can actually test whether the problem is
> reproducible or not.

I will write a report at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla later on.

Paul