Mount, unmount and eject removable devices

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Tue Aug 11 08:22:58 CEST 2009


On mar, 2009-08-11 at 08:01 +0200, Jordi Pujol wrote:
> A Dimarts, 11 d'agost de 2009 07:49:39, Brian J. Tarricone va
> escriure:
> > That's intentional.

That it's done on purpose.
> >
> What is the meaning of that answer ?
> 
> That is not correct, to be intentional or not, is not related. 

The topic has been aborded quite some time on xfce list (google should
help you on that). Brian made it clear that user (the usual, end user
one) doesn't have to mess with device (u)mounting. He shouldn't be
confused by multiple, unclear options. If both eject and umount are
proposed, what should I chose?

I agree “umount” might be helpful in some cases (mostly when there are
multiple partitions on a removable device, and you want to be able to
manage them independently) but there's no real way to manage the device
(be it a real device or a virtual one, like a crypto-container) at the
moment.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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