Thunar and the delay unmounting USB memory

[Andreas Rönnquist]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:12:09 -0800 (PST),
Sergio<sergiocmailbox-xfce at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>--- Em dom, 18/11/12, Andreas Rönnquist <mailinglists at gusnan.se>
>escreveu:
>> Is there a way to change the timeout delay Thunar uses for
>> unmounting
>> USB units? Trying to copy big files to USB I run into
>> problems using
>> Thunar and unmounting the USB memory stick, I get an unmount
>> failure
>> during the data copying. (If I wait, the data is still
>> written, but
>> without giving any clue on when it is done writing - and
>> because of
>> this a great chance of physically removing the device before
>> the data
>> is actually written.)
>> 
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>Current version only unmounts when finished writing to the device.
>Other than using pendrives with a light so you can see the operation,
>I think you running 'sync' on the terminal will tell you when it's
>done. 

Thanks, but that kind of defeats the purpose (at least for me) -
copying through the Thunar GUI, and then being forced to the terminal
to determine when in its done - Then I find it just as well to make the
entire copy through the terminal....

Thanks anyway!
-- Andreas Rönnquist
mailinglists at gusnan.se
gusnan at gusnan.se
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