Mount, unmount and eject removable devices

[Jordi Pujol]

A Dimarts, 11 d'agost de 2009 08:22:58, Yves-Alexis Perez va escriure:
>
> That it's done on purpose.
>
> 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.

many thanks for the explanation, but I am not convinced. 

Why we suppose what the users could think ? 
that should be able to change the way that a system works with the devices ?

We assume that when a user stops working with a CDROM, always he wants extract 
it from the device. I think that bias is wrong, because the user can work with 
the CD again later. 

Now, taking into consideration your point of view, I believe that the 
operation would be implemented as:

when is mounted: ummount or eject
and if the device is not mounted: mount or eject

that is, eject operation is allways available,
but mount or unmount is shown when corresponding,

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