Comment 51 for bug 63090

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iGadget (igadget) wrote :

Sitsofe,

If I may quote my comment on bug #36252, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/36252/comments/40 , perhaps if my suggestion (last part) was implemented, it would solve your problem?

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How Kubuntu does it:
I ejected (allthough it's called 'safely unmount' in Kubuntu Feisty) an external USB harddrive with an ext3 filesystem. It worked exactly as expected:
-The drive spun down and stopped
-The icon disappeared from the desktop
-The drive was no longer accessible

I believe this is how the 'eject' function in Nautilus / gnome-volume-manager should work as well (although I'm not sure how I would want it to behave if I had several partitions on my external drive... probably I would want the system to be smart enough to notice the difference between partitions on a disk and the disk itself. And give two options when I right click on one of those partitions on the desktop: 1) 'Unmount this partition on drive [foo]' and 2) 'Eject entire drive [foo]', followed by a popup, warning the user which partitions will also be unmounted when he/she continues. Or something similar, but this would probably be something for a blueprint? :-) ...).
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In other words, would this be worth a blueprint?