RE: Nautilus unmount volume, also power-off?

["Jan de Groot" <jan jgc homeip net>]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: desktop-devel-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:desktop-devel-list-
> bounces gnome org] Namens Simos Xenitellis
> Verzonden: maandag 4 februari 2008 12:58
> Aan: GNOME Desktop Devel
> Onderwerp: Nautilus unmount volume, also power-off?
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Currently Nautilus offers the option to either unmount or eject (if
> suitable) a volume, such as an external USB harddisk or flash drive.
> 
> There has been discussion in user forums if it is possible to power off
> those external storage devices as well,
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=451344
> http://www.techteam.gr/index.php?showtopic=118719
> 
> A way to implement the "unmount+poweroff" in Nautilus is to create a
> Nautilus action that calls "umount", then "sdparm --command=stop", and
> there is such a script circulating the forums.
> 
> ...
> 
> I am wondering if there are any gotchas to this approach.

Nice proposal, though I think this shouldn't be done by nautilus, but should
be exported by hal as command so any program can call the specific command
without adding extra code. Hal knows what volumes on a device are mounted
and which are not. And hal is the place where we should put these
platform-specific things (I can imagine that sdparm won't work on FreeBSD or
Solaris for example).