USB 3 drives and remounting

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 09:07:57 UTC 2016


On 15 December 2016 at 06:45, flocculant <flocculant at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> I've been seeing the bug wherein a usb3 drive remounts itself after you've
> ejected via file manager(s) for some time
>
> The issue has been kicking since 2011 (bug 792085 was reported in 2011)[1]
>
> Recently suse found a fix [2]
>
> Is this something that will eventually find it's way to us through kernel?
>
> I can only imagine that the situation will get worse as more people purchase
> usb3 devices.
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/792085
>
> [2] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922634

Have you checked your PC's firmware (BIOS) is up to date?

Colin



More information about the Ubuntu-quality mailing list