USB drives and unmounting

[Vadim Peretokin]

Nobody know?

This is still pretty annoying not knowing when can you really take out the
USB, forcing you to wait "just to be safe".

On Jan 16, 2008 2:44 PM, Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, no technical people can tell what's exactly wrong?
>
>
> On Jan 7, 2008 5:56 AM, sigurd wien <sigurdwien at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I filed a bug about this a while back:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/34140
> >
> >  It has been an issue since a kernel update in breezy. I was working
> > fine before that.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 7, 2008 2:18 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Whether or not it shows up probably has to do with how much data is
> > > waiting in the buffer to be written.  If it's just a couple megabytes, it
> > > probably writes them quickly enough that it doesn't need to tell you to
> > > wait, whereas if it has a lot to write it tells you it's working so you
> > > don't just yank it out before it finishes.
> > >
> > > Is it just me, or does the popup usually stop mid-sentence?  I'm
> > > pretty sure the last word on there is "or" or something that means "there's
> > > more to this sentence."
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jan 6, 2008 3:12 PM, Jonathan Musther <jmusther at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Definitely.  Sometimes it doesn't even show up, it's a bit random.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Jan 7, 2008 8:34 AM, Sidarth Dasari < sidster802 at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Vadim Peretokin wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I wondering if any of the technical-minded people could please
> > > > > take a
> > > > > > look at this thread:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=655136
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Which is discussing the difficulties posed when unmounting
> > > > > removable
> > > > > > media. The problem at hand is that the "writing data" to device
> > > > > popups
> > > > > > seem to appear randomly, and also offer no progress bar, leaving
> > > > > you
> > > > > > wondering if the thing is frozen, or is it safe to remove or no.
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > I also agree that it is a bit confusing. There should at least be
> > > > > a
> > > > > progress bar or some output that shows what its doing.
> > > > >
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