How to safely remove drives with pcmanfm?

[peysun1]

Hi,

With nautilus, drives can be safely removed: just right click on the drive, and choose the option "Safely Remove Drive".

I couldn't however figure out how this can be done with pcmanfm, although it reads explicitly that pcmanfm can safely remove drives:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/PCManFM

Any help is appreciated.

[bapoumba]

Do not you have the remove drive symbol when inserting, for ex, an usb thumb drive ?
Please have a look at PCManFM > Prefs > Volume Management.

[peysun1]

Thanks for the reply bapoumba!

>>Do not you have the remove drive symbol when inserting, for ex, an usb thumb drive ?
No, I don't get the removable drive symbol in pcmanfm, but I do get it in nautilus.
In my pcmanfm, the removable drive appears under /media.

Attached is my volume management settings. For some reason, it seems to be different than yours. (I use Lubuntu, and pcmanfm is its default file manager).

[bapoumba]

It gets mounted in /media here too, that is normal. Can you right click and get an "Eject" option ?
What is you PCManFM version and the lubuntu release you are on ? (I'm on 14.04 so PCManFM is 1.2.0, that may explain the different menus you get).

[peysun1]

No, I don't get ANY option (nautilus gives 8 different options, including Open, Open in New Tab, Open in New Window, etc).
I'm on 13.10 and my PCManFM is 1.1.2.
I didn't update my PCManFM since I don't know how to do that

[bapoumba]

My version is different because I use a later ubuntu release. You cannot "upgrade" PCManFM without upgrading the whole distribution. Of course, there are ways to install a later application release on a previous ubuntu release, but I do not think that 1- it is necessary, 2- I'd like to be playing with that.

If you open /home/<your_user>/.config/pcmanfm/lubuntu/pcmanfm.conf, do you have these under the [volume] section ?

[volume]
mount_on_startup=1
mount_removable=1
autorun=1

If nautilus mounts and ejects the removable media fine, I suppose the system is doing what is required.

Would you happen to have another user on this computer ? Do you see the same issue ?

Edit : can you eject it by command line ?

sudo eject /media/<your_user>/<your_thum_drive_UUID>

You can find the thumb drive UUID with

sudo blkid

It is usually on /dev/sdb1 but that can vary.

[vasa1]

Hi,

With nautilus, drives can be safely removed: just right click on the drive, and choose the option "Safely Remove Drive".

I couldn't however figure out how this can be done with pcmanfm, although it reads explicitly that pcmanfm can safely remove drives:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/PCManFM

Any help is appreciated.

I have the same version of PCManFM as you do (1.1.2). My external drive is named "TOSHIBA EXT" and if I right-click on its icon in the side-panel, I see options to mount or to unmount it. IMO, unmount is the same (?) as eject safely provided you wait for a few seconds before yanking it out

BTW, Thunar 1.6.3 also just has the mount/unmount without the "eject safely". The image below is from PCManFM 1.1.2:

[deadflowr]

This should give you a good idea of what the differences between unmount, eject and safely remove mean in terms of Ubuntu
http://askubuntu.com/questions/5845/...-drive-and-the

Maybe?

[vasa1]

This should give you a good idea of what the differences between unmount, eject and safely remove mean in terms of Ubuntu
http://askubuntu.com/questions/5845/...-drive-and-the

Maybe?

Great link. Thanks! Maybe we should take this elsewhere because it's an interesting topic by itself. Otherwise we could get infractions for derailing this thread

[bapoumba]

Yes I do.
Bingo! No, they don't see the same issue! Everything seems to work fine for them!
Yes I can.

I'll have to search again, I found a link yesterday on how to reset PCManFM config files and start anew, dut I did not bookmark it. I'll edit this post or bump it with a new reply if I find it again. I think it was on the LXDE forums, but I'm not sure.
In case you find something useful in the meantime, before you remove said file (recommended workaround in said post), think about renaming first, so that you keep a backup copy.

Great link. Thanks! Maybe we should take this elsewhere because it's an interesting topic by itself. Otherwise we could get infractions for derailing this thread

Do you really think we would do that to you ?
Thanks for starting a new thread.