Bug#564859: nautilus: what's the difference between "unmount" and "safely remove"

Sven Arvidsson sa at whiz.se
Tue Jan 12 17:07:00 UTC 2010


forwarded 564859 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598690
thanks

On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 11:28 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> if I right-click on a removable drive, nautilus presents me (among
> others) the two options "unmount" and "safely remove" without
> explaining the difference between both. I mean, to safely remove a
> device you need to unmount it and once it is unmounted you can safely
> remove it. For me both options sound synonymical; if it's just a
> matter of bad wording, it should be improved. Thus this bug report.

I have noticed this too, there's an explanation of the different options
and some different ideas on renaming or removing some of them in the
upstream bug.

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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