Public bug reported:
When you connect a USB storage device such as external hard-drive or
flash key, after unmounting, you usually get a message in the corner of
the screen saying to the effect that it is now safe to disconnect the
device (GNOME desktop).
Unfortunately if you have a device such as an external USB hard-drive or
flash drive that has more than one partition on it, you receive the
message for each partition you unmount, ie: if I have three partitions
and unmount one of them, I am advised that it is safe to disconnect the
USB device even though the other two partitions are still mounted.
If you unmount all three partitions at once, you get three advisories
that it is safe to disconnect all stacked on top of each other. It is
obvious that the message assumes that you only have one partition on the
USB storage device.
Additionally, USB devices are not powered down (or formally
disconnected, the way Windows does) upon unmounting (I recognise that
unmounting has technically nothing to do with powering down the device,
but for what other reason would you unmount it other than to use
fdisk?), this means some devices complain that they were not
disconnected properly despite unmounting, and some devices such as the
Nokia N95 phone will advise the user "data may have been lost" which
would panic any novice user. The only time such devices are happy is
when the USB stack is shutdown when Ubuntu is shutdown.
Both these issues have been observed on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Multiple "Safe to disconnect" messages for usb storage devices
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/243651
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