On Wed, 16 May 2012 09:20:25 -0400 Jonathan Kamens <jik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have an USB thumb drive with an LED that lights up when it is > activated. > > On Windows, when I am done using it, I can "safely remove" the > device, at which point the LED turns off and I know it is safe to > unplug it from the system. > > I could be remembering wrong, but I thought there was an equivalent > "safely remove" command in Fedora. However, on my F17 system, I can > no longer find this command anywhere, e.g., it isn't on the menu when > I right-click on the drive's icon, and neither umounting nor ejecting > the drive from that menu causes the LED to turn off. This, > understandably, makes me uncomfortable about yanking it out of the > system. > > So (a) what is the right way to completely deactivate a USB device, > so that the device knows and tells the user that it has been > deactivated, and (b) is there a bug here that I should be filing in > bugzilla? This should be fixed with a new update to gnome-shell etc. There is a notification that pops up if the USB drive is not safe to remove. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-7859 Tim
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