Ubuntu
dolphin package

Can no longer Unmount a removable drive - only Remove it.

Bug #1827778 reported by Gordon Lack
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dolphin (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

If I right-click on a mounted Removable Device in dolphin I get the option to "Safely remove it".

This will unmount it and *power it off*!

Which means I need to remove it and plug it back in again to get it to show up. Not what I want...

This is a change at 19.04. Previously it would just unmount it. (Or rather, it would just unmount an external disk-drive, but would remove a usb-stick).

There should be an option to just unmount (which is perfectly possible to do - "udisksctl unmount" achieves it).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: dolphin 4:18.12.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sun May 5 13:53:05 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-14 (110 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.2)
SourcePackage: dolphin
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-05-04 (1 days ago)

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Gordon Lack (gordon-lack) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in dolphin (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Richard Clayton (richard-rideandclimb) wrote :

I can confirm this behaviour. The current setup requires me to crawl behind my computer and unplug and re-plugin external HDDs after they have been safely removed.

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Gordon Lack (gordon-lack) wrote :

If you are interested in a workaround...

Put this into a *.desktop file in ~/.local/share/solid/actions/

========== NOT THIS LINE ==========
# Add an entry to the Devices menus in the Taskbar to just unmount a
# device (not power it down).
# Based on code in:
# https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270808#c64
#
# Needs to be in .local/share/solid/actions/
# so just symlink to it from there....
#
# NOTE: that to power off use:
# udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sd...
# Iff we could determine whether the *whole* device is unmounted we
# could add an option for that, but we can't...
#
[Desktop Action open]
Exec=udisksctl unmount -b %d
Icon=uninstall
Name=Just Unmount device [ADDDED]

[Desktop Entry]
Actions=open
Type=Service
X-KDE-Action-Custom=true
# This would be better, but doesn't work...
#X-KDE-Solid-Predicate=[[IS StorageVolume AND StorageVolume.ignored == false] AND StorageAccess.accessible == 'true']
X-KDE-Solid-Predicate=[IS StorageVolume AND StorageVolume.ignored == false]
========== NOT THIS LINE EITHER ==========

It will add a "just unmount" option on the Device Notifier section.

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Bast1aan (bast1aan) wrote :

I would like to add that on modern SMR drives, immediately powering down them after unmounting (writing) to them, can do more harm than good.

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