GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 337591
Unmounting removable media makes the icon disapear immediately, leading to potential data loss
Last modified: 2006-04-07 15:00:29 UTC
Please describe the problem: When unmounting removable media (USB key for example) via the context menu in the File Browser, the icon disapear immediately. However, some transfers might still be in progress (using "watch mount", you see the device is still mounted). If the device is removed too early, this can lead to data loss, since all data may not have been written to the USB key. Steps to reproduce: 1. copy a large amount of data to an USB key 2. when the copy finishes, unmount the media 3. run "watch mount" to see that the data is still being transfered (the device is still mounted) If somebody had removed the device between (2) and (3), data would have been lost. Actual results: If I remove the key before (3), a "Unable to eject media" dialog appears, mentionning that it was "unable to find or open device for: '/dev:sda1'". If I plug the key back and compare the files I transfered using diff, they are not the same as the original files. Expected results: I should be informed that data is still being transfered to the media. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
this is a nautilus or gnome-vfs problem
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 313639 ***