KDE: 'safely remove' does not safely remove

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 01:36:21 UTC 2006


On 11/7/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> 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.

In which component of KDE should I fill the bug at http://bugzilla.redhat.com?

Paul




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