Comment 81 for bug 28835

2010/1/6 Psy[H[] <email address hidden>:
> "Power down" is more correct than "Remove", because neither OS, nor computer can not remove device physically, but they can power it down.
>...
> But "Unmount" is "Unmount" and "Power down" is "Power down" there is no
> ambiguity here, so these words would be preferable. Fear of the word
> "unmount" is irrational.

In general "mount" is related to copulation. On Unixes it is something
with filesystems but people live in real world more than they do in
Unix world.
The desire to avoid the word "mount" is rational - it is explained in
bug description, comment #23, #26, #41, #67. Yes, users are irrational
but there is nothing we can do about it.

"Power down" - and some user will come and scream that just powering
down is dangerous and he also wants to to unmount the filesystem. In
fact he does not. He typically wants to remove the hardware and
instructs OS to do whatever is needed for that - including perhaps
unmounting, feeding the gnomes, checks if right falange is good or
whatever. Implementation details.