Andy Green wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Afaik, KDE simply uses the "eject" command, and eject (supposedly) does >> a umount first too. ?? > > It seems that the UI with the icon may have some kind of timeout > independent of the progress of the umount? Maybe Paul can confirm the > LED on his flash drive continues to show activity after the icon has > gone from the desktop. It could be possible from your description that possibilities include: * KDE's wait on eject time's-out * eject doesn't return an error-code on failure ( * KDE doesn't properly check for eject error(s). -- Rex