How do you guys unmount removable media

patrickthebold · 2010-07-21 02:56:07

I mostly use Thunar-volman to automatically mount usb drives, and I have looked into udev as well. These work fine for mounting things without me doing anything, but I'm wondering the easiest way to unmount a usb drive. Right now I open Thunar and right click and unmount. Is there anything that sits in the system tray (notification area) and lets me unmount with just one click?

I realize that what I currently do is only 3 steps, but it seems like it should be less work.

cesura · 2010-07-21 03:35:06

You can do it by device:

# umount /dev/xxxx

or by mountpoint:

# umount /path/to/mountpoint

EDIT: You could possible add that as an XFCE launcher or something (I'm not very familier with XFCE to be honest )

Last edited by cesura (2010-07-21 03:37:03)

thayer · 2010-07-21 03:37:25

I simply remove it...my udev rules cleanup the /media folders. Of course, I also make sure whatever was writing to it has finished beforehand.

maroxe · 2010-07-21 03:43:01

is it a good idea to umount manually devices mounted by other software like thunar?

Inxsible · 2010-07-21 03:49:47

I do a sudo umount /path/to/mountpoint.

Unless I am shutting down the computer...in which case I let the shutdown routine handle it.

nblock · 2010-07-21 05:44:13

i mainly use pmount to mount/umount removable devices.

sand_man · 2010-07-21 07:07:50

The partedmagic livecd uses a nifty frontend to pmount called mount-gtk. http://mount-gtk.sourceforge.net/
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23522

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655321 · 2010-07-21 07:36:11

well, I use gnome do with "docky" appearance, its a dock that if you right click on the usb or mounted unit, you get an option to unmount it, fastest way I have seen, and plus, gnome do its the best app ever in my opinion

hope it helps

archman-cro · 2010-07-21 07:57:56

I just 'umount /path/to/mountpoint'.

litemotiv · 2010-07-21 09:19:41

thayer wrote:

I simply remove it...my udev rules cleanup the /media folders. Of course, I also make sure whatever was writing to it has finished beforehand.

+1

i usually mount with sync to take care of that last part

patrickthebold · 2010-07-21 19:49:14

Thanks Everyone. The Gnome Do aproach was most what I was looking for. Perhaps I don't need to unmount at all? That sounds a bit scary though.

baion baion · 2010-07-21 22:34:46

If you are using gnome there is a utility that you can add to the panel to handle disks and removable media.

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