thunar only offers "eject" option for removable devices which in some cases "ejects" internal card readers and lost until the next reboot, in lighter cases one is forced to replug the device (or card) to use it again which is very bad when the device has more than one partition.
Can't reproduce in Thunar 1.3, eject simply unmounts the device.
At least until 1.2.3 (current in Ubuntu 11.10) If I plug a usb storage device (say, my audio player) and press eject the device is gone until I replug it. $ dmesg [43616.992091] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd [43617.072112] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2 [43619.228141] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd [43619.369939] scsi3 : usb-storage 1-2:1.0 [43620.370559] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Sansa Clip+ 8GB v01. PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [43620.371921] scsi 3:0:0:1: Direct-Access SanDisk Sansa Clip+ 8GB v01. PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [43620.464530] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [43620.464893] sd 3:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [43620.465396] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] 15462400 512-byte logical blocks: (7.91 GB/7.37 GiB) [43620.466282] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [43620.466292] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 04 00 00 00 [43620.469029] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present [43620.469041] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [43620.476046] sd 3:0:0:1: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk [43620.478273] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present [43620.478288] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [43620.480827] sdc: [43620.483490] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present [43620.483503] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [43620.483508] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk [43719.017823] sdc: detected capacity change from 7916748800 to 0 $ sudo disktype /dev/sdc --- /dev/sdc disktype: Can't open /dev/sdc: No medium found
There is still no 'unmount' option in 1.2.3, only 'eject' which is not same.
Created attachment 4568 Patch to add thunar unmount menu entry
I've adopted Harald's patch from http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/thunar-dev/2011-February/004840.html to apply against thunar-1.4.0. Tested on gentoo, seems to work perfectly
Created attachment 4569 Patch to add xfdesktop volume icon unmount menu entry Added patch for xfdesktop to be able unmount volumes as well
Adding Thunar, moving to Xfdesktop.
I just wanted to say this is the only reason I can't use Thunar for production. When connecting my work servers remotely and administrating the servers remotely through VNC if I click 'eject' I have to literally go back to my workplace, and replug the USB stick/drive to the server... (I'm sure there is some kludge you can feed to the Linux kernel to get it back without replugging the drive, but last time I tried that it killed more services than it brought back (the kernel crashed after forcibly reloading the usb hcd modules... :-/)
This work in Thunar master/1.5. Not in Xfdesktop yet.
Created attachment 4828 unmount option with notifications Proposed patch adds an unmount option as well as providing a notification message on a successful unmount/eject.
Pushed to master, http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=cad4ea4b789c4f67a666640d333bc6120ee4d5d5