Removable Flash Disk "eject" option

Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements

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Removable Flash Disk "eject" option is a service menu option that allows you to safelly remove/eject/unmount your Flash Disk.

I've made this since KDE doesn't have that option by default and I've seen a lot of people asking how to safely remove their flashdisk.

Hope it help.

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asdex

14 years ago

How does it work? There are several different ways to mount an usb stick: * fstab * subfs ...

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pek

14 years ago

Hi,
this "script" doesn't mount the flashdisk, it does the oposite, eject it using the kio_media_mounthelper command. You just need to copy one file to the KDE service menus dir.

Like guerrier said, some types of usb sticks doesn't work with the eject command , others need to be umounted and ejected, to change it just edit the flashdisk_eject.desktop script file, look to the last line and change the -e option to -u for unmount or -s to unmount and eject.

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smileaf

14 years ago

This is already implemented in KDE 3.4.x
Option is called "Safely Remove"
What version are you running?

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neofreko

14 years ago

Yup, it's alreay done. Just have it in my last KDE update (3.4.2-2) in FC 4. sticking the usb flashdisk will make a helper app show up in tray. There goes the option :)

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pek

14 years ago

I'm running KDE 3.4.2 "Level a" in SuSE 9.3 64-bit and it doesn't have it and I saw a lot of people that doesn't have that option too.

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guerrier

14 years ago

hi, i really like your work, especially when i install my friends pc's who don't know really good linux. This was the feature i missed. Altough it seems that it doesn't work for me.
If i launch the command kio_media_mounthelper -e /dev/sda it in a shell i get following error message: Eject /dev/sda failed!, ok i try with sudo and use -u instead of -e it works fine, so i changed the command in the file flashdisk_eject.desktop and now it's working for me.

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