One Hundred Papercuts

unmount should properly shutdown usb drives

Bug #387512 reported by Sam Thurston on 2009-06-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #386057: Consistent Volume "Safe to remove" notifications. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	One Hundred Papercuts	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

when I unmount a USB drive from the gnome desktop, the icon disappears on the desktop, but I get no indication that the device has been properly shutdown. The lights in my sandisk cruzer devices remain active, even though it appears as though it safe to remove the device (and indeed I have not had any problems in doing so)

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Corona (stefaniefauconnier) wrote on 2009-06-16:

I think this really confuses new users. Everybody looks at the lights of their USB drive, and some people are afraid to unplug it if they're still on.

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Vish (vish) wrote on 2009-06-25:

Marked this as a dupe of this bug > https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/386057

1] Because the intent is the same , to inform the user better on unmount of the drive.
2] there is no easy/quick fix to turn off the usb lights...

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