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Description of problem: gnome-volume-manager incorrectly reports that a removable drive is safe to remove when one partition on it is unmounted, but others remain mounted. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-volume-manager-2.17.0-7.fc7 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create two (or more) partitions on a removable drive, USB stick, etc. with auto-mountable filesystems (for sake of argument call them /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2). 2. Attach the drive. 3. Put a 100MB or so file on one of the drive's partitions (e.g. /dev/sdb2) to prevent the buffers from syncing too quickly. 4. Unmount this partition in GNOME, so that the "data to be written" pop-up shows. 5. Note that the next pop-up implies that the drive can be removed, even though other partitions (/dev/sdb1) on it are still mounted. Actual results: g-v-m incorrectly implies that the drive with partitions still mounted (/dev/sdb1) may be removed. Expected results: g-v-m tracks the actual device (/dev/sdb) and only says "safe to remove" when all its partitions are unmounted.
Still present in F8, gnome-volume-manager-2.17.0-8.fc8.
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Still present in F10, hal-0.5.12-12.20081027git.fc10.x86_64.
James, Have you tried with the latest hal package in Fedora 10 (hal-0.5.12-14.20081027git.fc10.i386) or tried Rawhide? In either case, can you let us know whether the issue is still happening, and give the current version of the HAL packages you're using? -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
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This is still present in hal-0.5.12-29.20090226git.fc11.x86_64 DeviceKit-003-1.x86_64 DeviceKit-disks-004-4.fc11.x86_64 After unmounting, a message pops up that the recently unmounted *volume* is safe to remove. This is, of course, meaningless (or even misleading) as only the physical device may be removed --- and it's not safe to do so if there's still a mounted volume on it.
It would appear that this is handled better now in Rawhide, which gives a "Safely Disconnect" option for drives that unmounts all partitions and shuts the device down.