Is the correct method to right-click the device in Dolphin and select the option to safely remove it? That seems to work.
Or is there another way?
I usually remove my memory stick by clicking on the “V” arrow, which comes under the removable drive popup located besides the Kmenu.
I just can’t figure out where you mean. The only thing that happens when I insert it is that the Device Notifier tells me.
No V arrow I can see. Which corner of the screen?
Perhaps you refer to a gadget I need to install?
- rgbeal,
what Gaurav said. IMHO this is only interesting when the device is in write access: It will not unmount before the files have been written.
Else just unplug the silly thing. I’ve done this for years now with both Linux and Windows; if there’s no file write, nothing will happen, no matter if it is a hard disk or a USB stick.
Uwe
OK but I’d still like to understand the meaning of this: “by clicking on the “V” arrow, which comes under the removable drive popup located besides the Kmenu”.
I assume the KMenu is the green button at bottom left. I have nothing that looks like a removable drive popup. The nearest is the Device Notifier which is two gadgets to the right of it and doesn’t have a V.
He means left click on the Device Notifier icon which looks like a terminal. It will popup and show a list of Recently Plugged Devices. On my screen it’s next to the clock.
Ah thank you. And by V arrow he meant an upward pointing arrow next to the name of the device. I understand now. Thanks.
- rgbeal,
it’s the “Device Notifier” plasmoid you can add to a panel or the desktop. It is available by default, but you may have deleted it. Just add it back and you’ll see it notify you about plugged in devices, including the little “Eject” icon.
Uwe
Yup, I meant the device notifier plasmoid.
And I meant click on the Downward arrow ‘V’ inside the plasmoid, which is by default on the right side of the L menu.
Using the command line is possible: “halmount -u /dev/foo”.
Installed from the ivman package.
When I plug a device such as my GPS into Linux, the device notifier prompts me it is installed and mounts it to a mount point. Unfortunately when I click the arrow next to the device name in the device notifier, it only unmounts the device, but does not “safely remove” the device as the windows option allows for. It is supposed to work, and I have confirmed it does work in other distros, but it does not work in my opensuse 11.1 kde 4.2 install.
What i need to do is issue the 'eject /dev/<device> to get it to imitate the 'windows safely remove hardware" feature.
Reason I want this is because my GPS, however plugged into the usb, will not charge until its out of data transfer mode or what ever mode its in. I need to remove the device and allow it to reboot. I can do this by removing the usb cable, but then when i try to plug it back in to charge it, it connects back up as a data trasfer. Therefore I need to maually issue this “eject command” every time I plug it in to allow it to charge.
This must be a bug in Suse, because it works in debian…so other debian usres have told me.
On 03/12/2009 changedsoul wrote:
> Unfortunately when I click the arrow next to the device name in the
> device notifier, it only unmounts the device, but does not “safely
> remove” the device as the windows option allows for.
But that’s just fine. It unmounts it, so you can unplug it when the “Eject” arrow disappears. Don’t expect the device itself to disappear from the list.
Uwe