[Bug 20424] nautilus and drivemount applet show icons for ejected devices

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------- Additional Comments From martin.pitt at ubuntu.com  2005-12-21 12:50 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #10)

> The gnome-vfs code is compiled to use libhal for some of its information in
> Ubuntu.  One of the bits of information obtained from HAL is whether the volume
> should be ejected after unmounting.  If this particular device shouldn't be
> ejected, then perhaps creating an appropriate FDI file to set the property would
> be the solution.

We deliberately eject USB and Firewire devices to properly power them off after
unmounting. I recently added a hal FDI file for that, so gnome-vfs should be
aware that the device should be ejected.
 
> If it is an issue of gnome-vfs having an incorrect view of the mounted volumes,
> then the following program might help:
>   http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/code/gvfs-list-drives.c
> 
> Does its output look sane when the USB key is plugged in?  Does it look sane
> after you've ejected the key using nautilus or the drive mount applet?

Thank you for the program. Julien, can you test this? Thanks!

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