Comment 64 for bug 28835

Another good use case for the difference between "unmount" and "eject": card readers. With my Kingston USB multri-reader under Karmic, I went to unmount a CompactFlash card so I could manipulate partitions on it, using the "eject" icon in the Nautilus sidebar... and then was confused when I couldn't find the device in gparted. I had to physically unplug and replug the card to get it back. It wasn't too big a deal to then right-click and "unmount" the device instead.

This raises an interesting question: on the sidebar "eject" icons, which should be the default action? Unmount, or full eject? I did notice one distinct advantage to the latter: since it ejected the card, the LED on the reader itself went out, making it absolutely clear it was safe to remove; previously, simple unmounting did not do that.

(Either way is still better than the Windows behavior of removing the card-reader itself -- and then requiring a reboot to get it back, if it's a built-in reader.)