Comment 10 for bug 1067876

Original reporter should use the proper terms for the Unity desktop components involved. There's no "Unity-Task-Bar" -- it's called the Launcher. And the pop-up that appears when right-clicking on a Launcher icon is called a Quicklist, not a context menu. For general Unity terminology, see: http://askubuntu.com/questions/10228/whats-the-right-terminology-for-unitys-ui-elements/19166#19166

Anyhow, under 12.04 and earlier my Patriot USB memory stick also had the "Safely Remove" Quicklist entry, but in 12.10 there's only "Eject" which doesn't perform a sync operation before telling me the device has been ejected. Ejecting (i.e. unmounting) without syncing can corrupt the filesystem if a write operation has been recently performed.