safely remove USB hard drive

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:44 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:38 +0000, g wrote:
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> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > It's an item on the right-click menu of the KDE desktop icons for
> > > mounted devices (I presume also in Gnome). Dolphin also has it as a
> > > button. From a Shell I guess 'eject' is the nearest equivalent.
> > 
> > under mandriva 2k8.0, kde 3.5.7, auto mount enabled, right clicking icon offers
> > 
> > 	   open | copy | open with file size viewer | open with...
> > 	unmount | open medium system folder | eject | properties
> > 
> > one more reason i need to get fedora up.
> > 
> > thanks for enlightening me.
> 
> Eject is the one you want. I think the terminology varies according to
> whether the medium can be physically ejectd or not. If it's a CD my
> system says Eject, if it's a pendrive it says "Safely remove".

In the last few weeks, selecting on the Desktop DvD Icon and clicking on
"eject" no longer works. I updated as the last installed version quit
ejecting the medium on me, but the update craps out as well. It's not a
huge issue, but I miss the convenience. Ric

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