-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Christian Nolte key : http://www.noltec.org/christian-nolte.asc or : www.keyserver.net - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Information Revolution will be fought on the command line. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFUisXCNjA0nfhW7wRAr0tAJ9DcnHxVVyKozWbhkzE45gYAd+pKwCgkZRf FMyAYaElGUmsFntJatsBoZk= =7rIh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
