Bug 196939 - Device notifier: Show where disk is mounted, and device name
Summary: Device notifier: Show where disk is mounted, and device name
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Disks & Devices widget (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Ubuntu Unspecified
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2009-06-17 23:33 UTC by Dotan Cohen
Modified: 2020-11-25 00:58 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Dotan Cohen 2009-06-17 23:33:50 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.90)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Removable media connected to the computer do not show where they are mounted nor what the partition name is. There is no way to identify the disks. Please add this info. Thanks.
Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2009-06-17 23:34:30 UTC
See also related bug 196938 for Dolphin.
Comment 2 Ferdinand Gassauer 2009-12-29 11:54:14 UTC
this error message is not helpful 
Cannot eject the disc.
One or more files on this disc are open within an application.

the user needs to know the application name or better the possibilitiy to click and open the very app-window or even to kill the process

Example 
fuser -m /dev/sr0
returns
/dev/sr0:            17009
ps -ef |grep 17009
returns 
/usr/lib64/gvfs/gvfsd-cdda --spawner :1.51 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2

not very helpfull ...
fuser -k /dev/sr0
kills the process 
manual umount works now 

but ... nothing for the end user. ...
Comment 3 Jonathan Marten 2012-09-23 16:21:53 UTC
Request in comment #3 is unrelated, please see bug 96107.
Comment 4 Jonathan Marten 2012-10-07 14:57:14 UTC
Patch and review at https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106755/
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 19:58:12 UTC
Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham
Comment 6 Jonathan Marten 2020-06-16 19:08:40 UTC
Still a wish for Plasma 5.  Reopening and reassigning.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2020-11-25 00:58:09 UTC
I'm not sure how much sense this makes, sorry. :) The device notifier is intended to be a quick shortcut to disks, not expose this kind of detail. It's not Partition Manager. :)

Speaking of Partition manager, you can use it to give labels to your disks so that they can be distinguished. That's probably the best solution here. Hopefully that will be sufficient.