On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Robert kerplop@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Mark's assumption was correct. In KDE, the right-click menu item is "Safely remove". I find it interesting, though, that root can manually mount a USB drive from the command line and any user can "safely remove" it via KDE.
From what I can see, this does not happen in Gnome because Gnome
doesn't recognize a manually mounted USB drive at all. If I plug in a USB drive, then use the right-click "Unmount" to unmount it, then mount it as root, Gnome does not see it (!) and does not post the icon for it. It shows up in df and most other command line utilities, and I can see it in nautilus as well (duh - it's mounted on a fixed mount point!), but Gnome doesn't see it the same way. So, no, Gnome isn't broken the same way as KDE, it's different.... :-)
mhr