Package: gnome-disk-utility Version: 2.32.0-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream
On Linux, a disk's /sys/block/*/device/ directory contains a file called "delete", and writing a 1 to this file makes the kernel perform any necessary cleanup and then forget about the device, causing udev to remove its /dev node. It's a good idea to do this before actually unplugging the drive, to ensure that there are no buffers waiting to be flushed to it. It would be helpful if the GNOME Disk Utility included a button to do this. It should either imply unmounting any mounted partitions on the disk, or appear only when no partitions are mounted. I've noticed that some USB flash drives are "deleted" from the kernel automatically when unmounted via Nautilus. However, I use eSATA enclosures to connect ordinary hard drives as removable disks, and those remain in /dev when unmounted; that's where this option would be useful. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-disk-utility depends on: ii libatasmart4 0.17+git20100219-3 ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing ii libatk1.0-0 2.0.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libavahi-client3 0.6.30-3 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.30-3 Avahi common library ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.30-3 Avahi glib integration library ii libavahi-ui0 0.6.30-3 Avahi GTK+ User interface library ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.8-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.92-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.4-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.3-3 GDK Pixbuf library ii libgdu-gtk0 2.32.0-1 GTK+ standard dialog library for l ii libgdu0 2.32.0-1 GObject based Disk Utility Library ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 3.0.3-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libnautilus-extension 2.30.1-3 libraries for nautilus components ii libnotify1 [libnotify 0.5.0-2 sends desktop notifications to a n ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-6 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libunique-1.0-0 1.1.6-2 Library for writing single instanc ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-1 X11 client-side library gnome-disk-utility recommends no packages. gnome-disk-utility suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
