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Stop external HDs? (g_stop_drive())?
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED

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Description samuel.b.isaacson 2011-09-20 02:15:44 CEST
When removing an external USB hard drive, it's not enough to unmount the volume---you also need to flush the hardware cache and spin down the drive.  (This is the difference between "ejecting" and "safely removing" a drive on Nautilus.) However, all that Thunar does is eject the drive (g_drive_eject()). It ought to also have an option to stop the drive (g_stop_drive()), or it ought not to tell a user that it is safe to remove a drive that is still spinning.
Comment 1 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-10-24 09:07:03 CEST
Thunar is using _stop() now.

Bug #7987

Reported by:
samuel.b.isaacson
Reported on: 2011-09-20
Last modified on: 2012-10-24

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
2 users

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