Comment 16 for bug 1194608

Hey, thanks for testing the patches.

(In reply to comment #10)
> 1.2. WD - 'Safely remove drive' option in Nautilus spinned-down it,
> gnome-disks 'Power off the drive' and 'udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sdX'
> works too.
> But there is a little difference - if I enable automount

I have an idea of what's wrong here but before I speculate on that, what exactly does "enable automount" mean? Are you referring to having the 'auto' option in the /etc/fstab file?

> the 'Safely remove
> drive'/'Power off the drive' does not spin-down the disk (disk plates
> rotating, but device is removed from system), I reopen the bug because of
> this.
>
> 2. for USB-flashes
> There is no 'Safely remove drive' option in Nautilus for my USB-flashes.
> After 'Eject' the parent device remains in system and may be powered-off by
> gnome-disks. For me it's a good compromise between udisks1 and udisks2
> behavior.
>
>
> I'm ready to test and collect logs of my WD USB-HDD. I can't understand why
> Seagate drive unmounts all partitions before power-off, but WD does not.
> What logs can help you to understand the problem?

When the system is running with the WD USB-HDD, please include the output of 'gvfs-mount -li' from a non-root shell in a terminal in the desktop session.