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[HanaO00]

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

[coldfix]

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