Comment 19 for bug 28835

While I'm not that concerned about wording, I do feel there is a use case for unmounting without removing. Some examples might include:

A) Wishing to overwrite rewritable media from some image (e.g. writing the newest Ubuntu ISO to a rewritable disk that may have contained previous data).

B) Wishing to perform various manipulations on media that cannot be done with a live mount (e.g. setting up an encrypted partition on a USB key)

C) Wishing to temporarily make some information inaccessible to the system until remounted (e.g. "unmounting" an encrypted loopback file when allowing someone else to use your maching)

D) Wishing to disconnect from some network store with foreknowledge that it will become unavailable (e.g. wanting to shut down a home NAS)

    While all of these represent less common use cases, I believe it ought be possible to construct an interface that permits the user to unmount volumes with the default tools used to display those volumes, yet still provide discoverability to users who simply want to remove the removable media. Simply dropping the "unmount" functionality in favour of an "eject" function is an overly simplistic solution.