Hi
I have an external USB disk and a USB stick
which behave differently under KDE when selecting
"Safely Remove"
They both have 3 partitions /boot, /, SWAP
(With Fedora installs on as it happens)
[root@naxos ~]# ls -l /dev/sdc*
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 32 2007-06-29 11:34 /dev/sdc
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 33 2007-06-29 11:34 /dev/sdc1
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 34 2007-06-29 11:34 /dev/sdc2
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 35 2007-06-29 11:34 /dev/sdc3
sdc1 and sdc2 are both mounted as per their "labels" (if inserted separately)
When Safely Remove is selected
1. The USB disk umount the 2 partitions
but leaves the icons on the dektop
and leaves /dev/sdc, /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2
2. The USB memory stick umount the 2 partitions
removes the icons from the desktop
and only leaves /dev/sdc
naxos ~ 1005# ls -l /dev/sdc*
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 32 2007-06-29 10:42 /dev/sdc
Thus the USB memory stick has to be removed and re-inserted to regain access.
For the USB disk you can just click on the icon
1. Why are the two "identical" devices treated differently?
2. Is there an easy method of changing all USB sticks
to act the same as the USB Disk?
Its just annoying !
Surely you don't have to dig into hal/udev to fix this
Regards
john