On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 20:17 +0000, g wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > This is the purpose of "safely remove". > > > > being that i have not been able to get fedora to install from fc4 and above, > > i use fc3 and md8k.0, just where is this "safely remove" coming from? > > 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. > > poc >From GNOME you just unmount and if there is alot of data , like when I transfer a 1gb of music to my player, it gives me a popup that says it is writing data to device. Then when its done it says it is now safe to remove. Those are the cues that I told my mother to use when ejecting her IPOD, at least on those occasions that she can remember how to do it, the rest of the time I have to drive over there ; ) If there is not alot of data, maybe you just dropped a couple of small files on a flash drive, you don't get any pop ups , presumably because the write operation on it takes as much time as reaching for and pulling the drive from the PC. I have not had a write operation fail to my flash drive or music player yet, doesn't mean it won't happen someday of course. Max -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
