[Thunar-dev] A few issues with Thunar volume management

[Benedikt Meurer]

Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
> 
> I have been using Thunar for a while, and I think by far that it is
> the best file manager out there --- it's fast, it's simple, and it
> does what it must.
> 
> But I have a problem managing volumes with several partitions in
> Thunar, using the automatic volume management provided: I have a 512MB
> external HD with three partitions, which get automounted whenever I
> plug it in. But:
> 
> - Whenever I unmount one of the partitions, the other ones get
> unmounted too (actually, all the HD). The partition I unmounted
> disapears from the location sidebar in Thunar, but not the other ones.
> - If I click on one of the non-unmounted partitions, Thunar will
> remount it *and* the previously unmounted partition will appear again
> in the sidebar.

Yes, that's the expected behavior. Tho, it could indeed be improved.

> I have also noticed that after copying a large amount of data to this
> HD (a backup of several GB) Thunar won't let me unmount the disk... or
> rather, it will, but it will pop out an error saying that the disk is
> busy. When I check which application is using the disk, it says that
> Thunar is, even if the file copy dialog has finished its task, and
> even if the red notification popup says that Thunar has finished
> working with the disk. The only way I have found to unmount the disk
> after one of these large backups was to kill Thunar, which would free
> the disk for unmount.
> 
> Are these known bugs, or am I doing something wrong / is there
> something wrong in my setup?

D-Bus applies a timeout to all calls. If your disk is slow or has a 
large cache, it may take longer to sync than the timeout, tho unlikely. 
May also be a bug in the HAL communication, did you try with another 
file manager?

> Thanks in advance,
> Denís.
> 

Benedikt