Hey On 2/4/08, Simos Xenitellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Currently Nautilus offers the option to either unmount or eject (if > suitable) a volume, such as an external USB harddisk or flash drive. > > There has been discussion in user forums if it is possible to power off > those external storage devices as well, > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=451344 > http://www.techteam.gr/index.php?showtopic=118719 > > A way to implement the "unmount+poweroff" in Nautilus is to create a > Nautilus action that calls "umount", then "sdparm --command=stop", and > there is such a script circulating the forums. > > Here is what I have in mind in implementing this > a. An external device can have several partitions. A power-off must be > attempted only when all partitions have been unmounted. Currently, the > UI does not offer yet an option of the sort "You have 4 partitions > mounted, shall I unmount them all?" but this can be done latter. > b. The user should not be confronted with information on "power-off"; a > power-off should be attempted when the last partition of a device has > been unmounted. That appears to be the case in Win/OSX. > c. Sending the STOP command appears not to work for some external USB > devices. I think it should be ok to try it anyway after the last umount > of a partition. > An alternative to sdparm is "sg_start --stop /dev/sdX". > d. Sending STOP to a flash drive can switch off the indicator light, > which is nice feedback to the user that they can unplug.
You just solved one of the mysteries in my friend's linux desktop. Nice idea btw. :P Greetings _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
