Re: [gentoo-user] external SSD problem

[Grant]

>> > What happens if you issue "umount /mountpoint" from a vt, rather than clicking
>> > "eject" in Thunar?
>>
>> That does work fine as does right-click + Unmount from within Thunar.
>> Ejecting from within Thunar seems to be the troublesome one.
>
> It appears the problem is with Thunar's "eject" command then. IIRC the eject
> apps were more, if not especially, intended for CD-ROM devices. At any rate
> you need to investigate what is being run when this script is executed when
> you press the radio button (or whatever) in Thunar for "eject".
>
> sys-apps/util-linux obsoleted sys-apps/eject on 06 Sep 2012, and we still
> sys-block/eject in portage. Which one does Thunar call?
>
> Sorry I've no time for investigating, and don't have Thunar installed on any
> PC atm.

Thanks for your help Bruce.  I'm passing this info to linux-usb too.
I'll report back with what I find.

- Grant