Can I please umount my usb device?

[Oliver Grawert]

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
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