Re: KDE: 'safely remove' does not safely remove

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Robin Laing schrieb:
> Paul Smith wrote:
>> On 11/5/06, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> The option of "safely remove" for removing pen drives is not working
>>> properly here. To safely remove my pen drive I have to use the command
>>> line through the command 'umount /dev/sda1'. Any ideas how to repair
>>> that?
>>
>>
>> I mean that KDE "safely remove" is not safe in the sense that some
>> data is lost, specially in the case one has just copied a large (say,
>> 100 Mb) file to the pen drive.
>>
>> Paul
>>
> 
> I found this problem in gnome on FC4 and submitted a bug report. Syncing
> can still occur after the timeout for the icon.  I found this after
> copying a large amount of files to a thumbdrive and corrupting the
> filesystem.  I also found out about fsck.vfat for repairing the file
> system.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199128
> 
> It may be the same bug.
> 

Perhaps this bug-report within gnome's bugzilla comes close to what you
have in mind to prevent data loss:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313639

Seems like a patch is on its way out.

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