Newbie question.
When I plug in the pendrive in antiX (8.5 beta4) it lights up even if not mounted. In Windows 2K one can click on the tray icon to 'safely remove' (stop) the drive. How to do that in antiX/Linux?
Thanks.

in rox right click on the flash disk mountpoint in /media and click unmount, it's in the menu under mount point 'name' > unmount.
in pcmanfm the stick will be in the left side panel. same thing right click on the flash drive and press unmount file system.

i use them and it works. sometimes i would remove the stick without unmounting and the files that i copied are not there when i mount the flash again, so i assume this is safe remove.

Thanks, ICE.
edit-Anyway, I'm in a public Internet place and the system is something Kubuntu 3.0 based which has dolphin and it has the 'safely remove' option (besides 'mount'/'umount').

Been using windows lately at work. I think the safely remove option first checks if any apps are accessing the device such as windows file manager, word, etc. If so, you need to close these apps, or at least navigate to a new directory. Otherwise, safely remove will unmount the device. I'm not sure about how kde does it's business, though. Perhaps it is similar to the windows philosophy. And mount/unmount forces the issue.

john