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

[Leroy Tennison]

Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Leroy Tennison
> <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net>wrote:
>
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>> 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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Thanks for the reply.  If you think "way back in the KDE 4.2 days" 
consider that I'm on KDE 3.5.4!  I guess the point of all this is "don't 
use KDE's removable media programs" which is fine with me.