New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Options #186

Open

HanaO00 opened this issue Aug 10, 2019 · 1 comment

Labels

HanaO00 commented Aug 10, 2019

Hello, I wanted to know what are the differences between "Unmount", "Eject" and "Unpower"?

Owner

coldfix commented Jan 20, 2020

Hi,

I'm very sorry to have ignored this question for so long.

The differences are:

mount/unmount: adds/removes a filesystem at some location into your filesystem hierarchy, but the device stays on (powered)
unpower: turns the device off (unpowers the usb port)
eject: is meant for CDs and other media that will be physically ejected from the machine. This option is sometimes available for other devices as well, because of how udisks2 works. As far as I know, the other options are preferrable in this case.

I will leave this issue open, until I have some time to add this to the documentation.

Best, Thomas

coldfix added the documentation label

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment