Can I please umount my usb device?

[Joel Dimbernat]

Le dimanche 20 mars 2005 à 11:37 +0100, Oliver Grawert a écrit :
> hi,
> Am Sonntag, den 20.03.2005, 00:52 -0500 schrieb John Richard Moser:
> > Now I can't find /media/usbdisk in nautilus and unmount it.  i can find
> > it, but no umount on the menu.  The disk mounter applet also doesn't
> > show it, which is sad because I liked it.
> > 
> > Not that I need it, but I'm very user oriented; I want something I can
> > push in the user's lap so he can use it without asking me a million
> > questions.  It's part of me wanting to say, "anyone can use Linux, it's
> > not like you need to read crap with a hex editor from DOS and load the
> > kernel into RAM with a home made basic program using peek and poke to
> > boot it or anything."  And I'm lazy.
> why should it be userfriendly to provide a unmount option for a device
> that doesnt need to be unmounted ? doesnt it dissapear if you just
> unplug it ? for me this kind of devices just dissapear from nautilus if
> i unplug them and i cant imagine a more userfriendly way...
> 
> ciao
> 	oli

USB disks should not be unplugged without being unmounted.

Joel