[Thunar-dev] "Ejecting" USB flash drives

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:55:29 +0100
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 17:45 +0100, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > Please show me a valid use case where
> > this is important and I might rethink my perspective. I can only
> > think of "oops, I forgot to copy this file to the USB stick, now I
> > need to mount it again" so far. 
> 
> When you have multiple partitions or drives on the device. And no,
> these are not only for geeks, think smartphones with internal memory
> + sdcard or card readers with multiple slots.
> 
> If “eject” remove all of them at once, it's a bit painful.

But why do you need to unmount at all then? Just eject once you now
longer intend to have the device connected to your machine.

  - Jannis