On different machine of Ubuntu Linux, you will see an icon indicating the presence of your USB flash disk usually on the upper left corner of your desktop. It mean that your USB flash disk is already mounted automaticly. You can browse all of it's content by double-clicking it.But when you want to "safely remove" it, you must close all running application windows first. Then find and right click the USB icon on the desktop, so you can unmounted it by picking "Unmounted Volume" option. Pretty tricky, huh?
Well, After installing ubuntu, you will not get that kind of easy way of removing removable drive in the Windows desktop, because it's Ubuntu default setting. But you can make it by installing the "Disk Mounter" on the panel. So, here is the trick :
1. Right click the panel, and click "add to Panel" Option.
2. Pick "Disk Mounter" item. then click "Add".
3. Plug in the flash disk. You will see an icon on system tray at the left side of your panel.
4.When you want to plug it off, just click the icon,and pick "Unmount" option. Now, you can "safely remove" your USB flash disk.
5. The Icon will always be appear even when you have plugged the USB flash disk off. You can check it simply by placing the pointer to it or click the icon.
It's useful when you want to mount it again.PS. It's my first post in english. I'm sorry for any grammar error or typo. you can give me some suggestion then.
Hi,
ReplyDelete`unmounted it by picking "Unmounted Volume" option. Pretty tricky, huh?' - well not really, it's quite simple. Personally I find "click on funny arrow to show all small icons, find the weird grey box with green arrow, click on this box and work out which drive letter (not label) is your drive, then select it" a lot lot harder. But I guess it's what you are used to.