Re: usb device umount option in menu missing for some devices

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On 2015-05-13, deloptes <deloptes@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
> where I can look for a resolution of following problem.
>
> When I plug usb stick or memory card in the notebook I see the option in the
> menu to mount/umount it and it works great.
>
> When I plug the phone (select use as usb storage device in the phone) it
> appears in the menu and I can mount it but consequently there is no option
> to umount it. How can this be corrected?
>
> /dev/sdb on /media/Nokia N9 type vfat
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-15,shortname=lower,showexec,utf8,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks)
>
> I have to execute
>         udisks --unmount /dev/sdb
> in the shell in this case - which is not nice enough
>
> thanks

Are you using GNOME (the default) in Jessie? If so, the device should
appear in the nautilus sidebar, with an 'unmount' icon next to it.

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Liam