Removing powered device from USB port is unsafe operation. It is not sufficient to unmount/eject drive, it must be completely powered off before removal. Please bring back "Safely remove" to Nautilus. I tried 4 Transcend flashes, 1 ADATA, 2 no-name (SMI and ChipsBnk). They remain powered after eject - it's DANGEROUS for my (and anybody's) data. I tried external USB-SATA Tsunami HDD - Disks does not spin down (stop) it - It's DANGEROUS for my (and anybody's) data. This bug come from Nautilus. Ubuntu is affected by this bug too (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/+bug/1067876, https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1127135).
I can detach USB-flash or HDD from console with "udisks --detach /dev/sdX", but it is not simple way for linux-newbies.
On other laptop (Asus T101MT) Transcend flash is remounted automatically by Nautilus (?) after "udisks --detach /dev/sdX".
I tested 4 flashes and 1 USB HDD - you can read my test report (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao5e713Ig9g_dHJBalI2b09TQ2ZNOHJOQnhFbEVXaXc). The conclusion is very bad: I tested Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 13.04, Fedora 18, OpenSuse 12.3. All they can't remove power from USB drives like it was in GNOME 2 and previous versions of GNOME 3.
I reported that to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695281 some days ago. It seems to me that either many USB sticks are lying and claim that they have removable media, or it's a bug in the kernel driver that sets "removable=1" for them. Nrbtx, note that it's not quite dangerous -- devices are still "eject"ed, which means unmounting everything and releasing the media. The actual USB device remains powered up, but that's not a concern for data safety.
I don't think so. Removing a powered device is not a good idea anyway (especially rotating USB-HDD).
Safely remove is partially working under Fedora 19 alpha (from http://fedorapeople.org/groups/qa/20130320-gnome/20130320-gnome-i686.iso). Nautilus showed Safely remove option for 1 of my 5 flashes and USB-HDD. It powered off 1 of my 5 flashes, but USB-HDD did not spin down.
-> gvfs As Martin says in comment #4, Nautilus' behavior didn't change here anytime recently, but gvfs/udisks apply different heuristics now, which are reflected in the options available to the GIO clients like Nautilus.
Bug still exists in Fedora 18 with latest updates. Please inform GNOME developers and fix this bug using joint efforts.
Bug exists in Gnome 3.8 (Fedora 19).
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Bug still exists in Fedora 18 and 19.
Bug exists in Fedora 19 final. What's next?
I saw this with F18. I clean installed F19 when it came out. Now I generally have to unmount several times because it tends to automatically remount. But when it finally does unmount for good, it automatically powers off. I have gnome-disk-utility-3.8.2-1.fc19.x86_64 and gvfs-1.16.3-2.fc19.x86_64.
Bug exists in Fedora 20.
Bug exists in Fedora 20 final version.
Bug still exists in Fedora 20. Please fix it.
The bug exists in Red Hat ____Enterprise___ Linux Workstation 7.0 (Maipo). Bug can be fixed by upgrading udisks to version 2.1.3 (see commits http://cgit.freedesktop.org/udisks/commit/?id=fcdd8f48b6ac9b1b6da82fdf5f59230fc2ea6feb and http://cgit.freedesktop.org/udisks/commit/?id=a54c2fa14c522487a78828d4a9dfd89f916a3576).
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