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

[Gilbert Morrow]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Leroy Tennison
<leroy_tennison at prodigy.net>wrote:

> Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> > 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
> .
> >
> >
> >
> 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.
>
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FYI , KDE 4.4 does not have this issue , you can mount and unmount USB
devices as much as you wish .
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