KDE: 'safely remove' does not safely remove

[Rex Dieter]

Andy Green wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> Afaik, KDE simply uses the "eject" command, and eject (supposedly) does
>> a umount first too.  ??
> 
> It seems that the UI with the icon may have some kind of timeout
> independent of the progress of the umount?  Maybe Paul can confirm the
> LED on his flash drive continues to show activity after the icon has
> gone from the desktop.

It could be possible from your description that possibilities include:
* KDE's wait on eject time's-out 
* eject doesn't return an error-code on failure (
* KDE doesn't properly check for eject error(s).

-- Rex