Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I have been using Thunar for a while, and I think by far that it is > the best file manager out there --- it's fast, it's simple, and it > does what it must. > > But I have a problem managing volumes with several partitions in > Thunar, using the automatic volume management provided: I have a 512MB > external HD with three partitions, which get automounted whenever I > plug it in. But: > > - Whenever I unmount one of the partitions, the other ones get > unmounted too (actually, all the HD). The partition I unmounted > disapears from the location sidebar in Thunar, but not the other ones. > - If I click on one of the non-unmounted partitions, Thunar will > remount it *and* the previously unmounted partition will appear again > in the sidebar.
Yes, that's the expected behavior. Tho, it could indeed be improved. > I have also noticed that after copying a large amount of data to this > HD (a backup of several GB) Thunar won't let me unmount the disk... or > rather, it will, but it will pop out an error saying that the disk is > busy. When I check which application is using the disk, it says that > Thunar is, even if the file copy dialog has finished its task, and > even if the red notification popup says that Thunar has finished > working with the disk. The only way I have found to unmount the disk > after one of these large backups was to kill Thunar, which would free > the disk for unmount. > > Are these known bugs, or am I doing something wrong / is there > something wrong in my setup? D-Bus applies a timeout to all calls. If your disk is slow or has a large cache, it may take longer to sync than the timeout, tho unlikely. May also be a bug in the HAL communication, did you try with another file manager? > Thanks in advance, > Denís. > Benedikt _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev