[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
** Changed in: udisks2 (Ubuntu) Status: Won't Fix = Triaged ** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
Setting to fix commited, it will be fixed in raring once udisks 2.1 lands and gvfs is rebuilt with it ** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Committed ** Summary changed: - [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. + Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. ** Changed in: udisks2 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
** Changed in: udisks Status: Confirmed = Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
Lisa, [Safely Remove] = eject + REMOVE POWER from USB device. The 'remove power' is the main issue. Removing/disconnecting ANY electronic device with power still applied is dangerous. This is the reason for [Safely Remove] option for mounted USB sticks. Without the [Safely Remove] option, the only way to SAFELY remove/disconnect a USB stick is to shutdown your system first. As I said before, the reasoning given for NOT putting [Safely Remove] is bogus and dangerous thinking. It is evidence that those who made the decision to remove the option are saying they are dumber than Windoz or other Linux OS which HAVE the option. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
Thanks all for your interest to this issue, Ubuntu is neither writting udisk nor responsible for that change, could one of you engage the conversation with the people writing this software by opening a bug on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=udisks ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
OK, I've opened a bug upstream: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60293 Please, everybody who is interested subscribe to that thread too (you can add yourselves to the CC list and save changes, the beauty of having 10 different bug systems :). ** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #60293 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60293 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
OK, I've opened a bug upstream: thank you! ** Also affects: udisks via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60293 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: gvfs Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
Launchpad has imported 2 comments from the remote bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60293. If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. On 2013-02-04T19:46:44+00:00 Dražen Lučanin wrote: A forward of bug 1067876 ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/+bug/1067876 ) on Launchpad: In Ubuntu 12.04, I could right-click on my usb-external-harddrive's Unity-Task-Bar icon (launcher icon) and select Safely Remove. Upon doing this, the icon would disappear and I would proceed in unplugging my external hard drive. However, since upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10, this option is no longer available in the context menus (Quicklists) for external drives. Instead, all I see is Unmount, and after clicking Unmount the icon remains on the task-bar (launcher) and no indication is given that would imply that the unmount occurred successfully. The intent of this report is to bring back the Safely Remove option which (by making the icon disappear after selected) indicates that you may now safely removal your USB external hard drive (by unplugging its usb connector). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: unity 6.8.0-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell] Date: Wed Oct 17 14:55:17 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin - Release amd64 (20120425) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-04 (13 days ago) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/+bug/1067876/comments/36 On 2013-02-04T19:47:39+00:00 Dražen Lučanin wrote: Also, the safely remove option would recognise if the external drive had multiple partitions and offer to remove the master device if I remember correctly. Now I have to manually unmount four partitions on my 2 TB external disk every time I want to remove it. Expected behaviour - when it's detected that the user is ejecting a partition that is on an external drive containing more partitions, it should offer to safely remove the whole device. Alternatively there should be two options upon right clicking a drive icon - unmount only the partition and safely remove master device. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/+bug/1067876/comments/37 ** Changed in: udisks Status: Unknown = Confirmed ** Changed in: udisks Importance: Unknown = Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
Why not have Eject for USB sticks and other removable media, and Safely remove for external hard disks? For USB sticks and alike, Eject is alright, because it's usually safe. But for an external hard disk, it should be made more safe: Clicking Safely remove should show a dialog window to confirm the action, so that users don't do this by accident. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
How does the system distinguish between USB sticks and external hard drives (other than size)? I've noticed that Nautilus actions do not trigger OSD notifications. Removing external media by right-clicking within nautilus will not generate OSD notifications. The OSD notification behavior is not consistent. In 12.04 right-clicking and Ejecting in the LAUNCHER triggers an OSD notification, but right- clicking and selecting Safely-Remove in the launcher does not. I think that any action on external media - from the Launcher or from Nautilus - should generate OSD notifications whether its Eject, or Safely Remove, or Unmount, etc. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
Jan, The won't fix decision is not by users and IMHO is bogus. Ubuntu 12.04 had the 'Safely Remove' feature and it worked. 'They *removed* it in 12.10 version. 'They' are also saying that Windoz CAN have the feature but Ubuntu cannot, which is BS. By the way, I've tried Linux Mint and SUSE and both had the feature. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
You can use my bash script from command line or through a shortcut key. ** Attachment added: srUSBdd.sh https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+attachment/3474265/+files/srUSBdd.sh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
You can use my bash script from command line or through a shortcut key. ** Attachment added: srUSBdd.sh https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+attachment/3474317/+files/srUSBdd.sh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
** Attachment removed: srUSBdd.sh https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+attachment/3474265/+files/srUSBdd.sh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
You can use my bash script from command line or through a shortcut key. ** Attachment removed: srUSBdd.sh https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+attachment/3474317/+files/srUSBdd.sh ** Attachment added: srUSBdd.sh https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+attachment/3474374/+files/srUSBdd.sh -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
Excuse me, is there any way it could get fixed in Ubuntu, evethough Gnome guys decided they won't fix it? There surely must be a way to recognise HDDs from card readers. A script that would do it is nice, but needs more clicks, can't we just have the old feature back? This Gnome approach to things makes me a bit angry and wishing bad things to people. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
So - we had this feature. And then it got removed to avoid rare problems and replace them with common problems? (sigh) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
Safely Remove missing from ubuntu 12.10 qicklist ... do we have any solutions ... Unplugging any device while powered up is dangerous! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
Re: [Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
If there can't be a safely remove option, could you at least add an unmount all partitions on device option or something similar so that people don't have to right-click and unmount X partitions separately before they can unplug the device? I'm guessing it can't be that hard to find other partitions mounted from a certain device if one has been selected. Anyway, from all the machines with Linux installed I've worked on over the years I haven't once encountered an internally wired USB device and I have to deal with my multi-TB external disks and their numerous partitions daily. I think that a mistake of forgetting to unmount one of 6-7 partitions and causing the loss of data greatly outweights having to reboot your machine if you accidentaly unmount an internally wired CD drive or something. On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Blair Zimmer bmaz...@gmail.com wrote: Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2012-11-13: #13 The safe remove functionality was removed from udisks2, and it's not planned to bring it back. It caused too much trouble with e. g. devices which are internally wired to an USB port, and you could never use them again until after a reboot. Also, having two options was a constant source of confusion. So I'm afraid this is wontfix from the distro side. Martin, There is myself and I am sure many others who find this justification unacceptable! I have several systems in which devices are connected internally via USB headers/ports. Yes, the option does exist, be it Ubuntu 12.04.1, Windows XP-7, etc. to safely remove these devices via a right-click, even though they are devices that would not normally require such action. Examples of these devices are a wireless N network adapter, an internal media card reader with USB port, etc. Quite frankly, it comes down to a user exercising diligence when right- clicking on any device and knowing what device it is that they are about to safely remove beforehand! Saying that it causes too much trouble for devices that would then require a reboot to use again is in my opinion, a cop-out! It is a chance that most users would be willing to take, to err on the side of caution when it comes to properly powering down a device first before removing it! If it is a choice between having the safely remove command available to remove a device properly by completely powering it down or not having the safely remove command available at all in an attempt to eliminate the confusion that exists in correlation to the eject/unmount commands while helping to prevent some users from accidentally removing the wrong device, I think the majority of users do not find it as confusing as you implicate. I and others I am sure would rather have the option to safely power down our devices using the safely remove command and thus this is a request to have it formally reinstated. This too, has prevented me from upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10! -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a duplicate bug report (1081716). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
I have encountered internally wired USB devices in two cases: 1. An old Thinkpad connected the internal optical drive via USB. 2. An internal card reader that fits a 3.5 drive bay and connects to a USB header. In both cases, a full Eject of the device rendered it unusable till next reboot. But I agree they are rare and we should not be punishing everyone just to avoid problems with such devices. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2012-11-13: #13 The safe remove functionality was removed from udisks2, and it's not planned to bring it back. It caused too much trouble with e. g. devices which are internally wired to an USB port, and you could never use them again until after a reboot. Also, having two options was a constant source of confusion. So I'm afraid this is wontfix from the distro side. Martin, There is myself and I am sure many others who find this justification unacceptable! I have several systems in which devices are connected internally via USB headers/ports. Yes, the option does exist, be it Ubuntu 12.04.1, Windows XP-7, etc. to safely remove these devices via a right-click, even though they are devices that would not normally require such action. Examples of these devices are a wireless N network adapter, an internal media card reader with USB port, etc. Quite frankly, it comes down to a user exercising diligence when right- clicking on any device and knowing what device it is that they are about to safely remove beforehand! Saying that it causes too much trouble for devices that would then require a reboot to use again is in my opinion, a cop-out! It is a chance that most users would be willing to take, to err on the side of caution when it comes to properly powering down a device first before removing it! If it is a choice between having the safely remove command available to remove a device properly by completely powering it down or not having the safely remove command available at all in an attempt to eliminate the confusion that exists in correlation to the eject/unmount commands while helping to prevent some users from accidentally removing the wrong device, I think the majority of users do not find it as confusing as you implicate. I and others I am sure would rather have the option to safely power down our devices using the safely remove command and thus this is a request to have it formally reinstated. This too, has prevented me from upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
Some USB sticks have a light to indicate when they are powered. In 12.04, when Safely Remove was selected the light on the stick (and USB hub if plugged into a hub) go off. This is the expected behaviour. There is no longer a Safely Remove option in 12.10. If I select Eject, neither the light on the stick or hub go off. This doesn't give a good indication to the user that the drive can safely be removed. I also have a problem that a Lexar 64MB Jumpdrive (05dc:0080) will re- appear on the launcher after I eject it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
Actually, you have to unmount all partitions first to avoid filesystem corruption. That's the one thing that is absolutely critical. After that, yes, remove power if you can. However the reason why Gnome is treating this bug as Won't Fix is because there are too many device types that are unsafe to power down. Devices like optical drives and card readers that look like internal devices to you, but to the OS are USB devices in some cases. So Linux thinks they're safe to power down (which you can't recover from without rebooting). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
Again, putting a drive to 'sleep' is NOT correct fix! You have to REMOVE POWER first, to *safely* remove/disconnect a USB drive. That is what Safely Remove did in older versions of Ubuntu. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 1067876] Re: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount.
I agree we could just: 1. Unmount all partitions; and then 2. Suspend the drive (put it to sleep). That should be a safe way to remove the drive. The main issue with this bug is that the Unity launcher is presently tied to the Nautilus behaviour. So far we have only mirrored what Nautilus would let you do. But we don't really need to. If there's a safe way to shut down a drive without risking removing it (it may be an internal device), then we should. But a better solution would be to keep the smarts in the Gnome API so the same fix applies to Nautilus and the launcher. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067876 Title: [quantal] Missing Safely Remove Drive and Eject options from Quicklists. Only have Unmount. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1067876/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
