how to recover lost files

[Darryl Clarke]

On 24/01/06, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> Darryl Clarke wrote:
>
> >1) from "Computer" - if you go Places -> Computer you will have a view
> >of all your drives, select and right click your drive and unmount.
> >
> >
> As you'll have seen in other parts of this thread, this _ought_ to be
> the case but isn't. are you running a standard system?

Yes, as standard as Dapper gets.

>
> >2) from any nautilus window - if you have the Side Panel on (F9) and
> >in Tree mode, you can right click on your drive and unmount.
> >
> >
> Same as above

You must be in 'Tree' Mode in the side panel.

>
> >3) from command line/terminal - using 'df' you can find the mount
> >points and use 'umount /media/disk'
> >
> >
> that works as expected, but must be 'umount /media/usbdisk'

of course, it's dependant on whatever your disk was mounted as :)

>
> >4) from a panel you can add the 'Disk Mounter' applet and use it accordingly.
> >
> >
> Just have and it seems to work great, except now I have 6 extra icons in
> the top panel, that's why I hid them from the desktop - I only expect to
> have a gui to unmount _removable_ media.

I agree diskmounter is a last resort if you have many disks.  I have
an all-in-one card reader that shows up as 9 drives, add a dvd rom and
a dvd burner and 11 icons for disk mounter becomes unusable.  But, it
does not show my system disk or other fixed disk mounts.  It only
shows the drives handle by the automounter that fall under the /media
mount point.  Which, is also the only icons that are supposed to show
on your desktop.

If, by chance, you have a non-removable disk mounted under
/media/[disk] and it shows up on your desktop (annoying you) move it's
mount point to /mnt/[disk]

As far as a few other things in this thread: Yes I completely agree
that the unmount/eject context should be available from the 'Places'
menu. :)

> Thanks for the ideas. Come on Ubuntu team, this should be an easy one to
> fix... (and isn't in Dapper)

No prob, that's what the list is for (help, ideas and suggestions, that is!) ;)

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