Peter, I second your thought that devkit-disks should be called by the GUI tools that help safely remove external storage devices.
After some quick testing, devkit-disks seems to solve all the problems I've described above. Thanks for the information, Alain! Cheerz, Martin -- WD external drives need to be spun down, "sdparm --command=stop" doesn't work any more https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117713 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs