KDE: 'safely remove' does not safely remove

[Paul Smith]

On 11/6/06, Markku Kolkka <markkuk at tuubi.net> wrote:
> > Expected behavior is for the user space auto mount when the
> > USB pen drive is inserted and for it to be unmounted when
> > 'safely remove' is chosen for that device. There should be no
> > need to alter fstab or udev.
>
> The problem I have seen is that the device icon on the KDE
> desktop changes immediately after "safely remove" to indicate
> that the device is unmounted and ready to be removed, but the
> system is actually still in the process of writing data to the
> device. If the device is removed too early, some files will be
> missing or the filesystem may be corrupted and there's no way to
> know when it's actually safe to remove it.

I can now confirm that, as the same happens here. So, Andy's guess
seems correct. I am going to fill a bug at bugzilla.

Paul