[NTLUG:Discuss] Is KDE's "Safely Remove" safe?

[Gilbert Morrow]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Leroy Tennison
<leroy_tennison at prodigy.net>wrote:

> I'm noticing unusual behavior with this feature in relation to USB
> drives.  If I insert a USB stick KDE pops up a dialog asking what to
> do.  If I select "Open in a new window" it does and the drive is
> accessible (and mounted).  If I later select "Safely Remove" and nothing
> is open on the drive then the drive is unmounted, the icon disappears
> and it no longer appears in the Storage Media list.  All of that is OK
> (except the fact that I have to remove the drive and re-insert it for
> KDE to recognize it after that).  However, if I su to root at a bash
> prompt, I can't manually mount the drive (it is still inserted).  "ls
> /dev/s*" shows an "sda" but mount can't mount /dev/sda1 and fdisk as
> well as parted can't open /dev/sda.
>
> In contrast, if I select "Do nothing" at KDE's dialog, then I can mount
> and umount /dev/sda1 at will (as well as use fdisk and parted with it).
>
> Any ideas, insight or experience with this?
>
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I did say something way back in the KDE 4.2 days , the maintainer of that
section commented on it and said that that is the way "Device Actions"
handled it (dont remember exact quote , been a while ago) , if you look in
"System Settings>Advanced>Device Actions" you will see some options there .


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