[Thunar-dev] "Ejecting" USB flash drives

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Wed Feb 23 08:04:26 CET 2011


On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 17:42 +0100, Harald Judt wrote:
> I do not want that; I want the USB flash drive in my list as long as it 
> is physically attached to the computer. "Eject" is wrong here anyway, 
> you can't eject it like you can a CD or DVD. How can I revert this 
> annoying behaviour? 

Note that eject does make sense for some usb devices. First, that means
it unmounts all the partitions at once and it stops the power. Secondly,
in some cases (“smart” devices like media player, phones etc.) it's
required to eject and not just unmount.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/thunar-dev/attachments/20110223/ab45e5a8/attachment.pgp>


More information about the Thunar-dev mailing list