USB device: "Safely Remove" not safe; not sync'ed?

[Rich Lott]

Oh, I get it. I'm right, it's a massive bug, with no plans to sort it out 
before KDE4!

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/61946

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/70417

over and out.

rich

On Tuesday 20 February 2007 11:02:29 Rich Lott wrote:
> Hi
>
> Edgy has a Safely Remove action in the context menu for removable usb
> media.
>
> However I've noticed that if I copy a large amount of data onto a usb1
> device, choose Safely Remove immediately, then the icon disappears, the
> device says disconnected, yet the files are not copied and no
> error/information comes up.
>
> I'm worried about what state this leaves the file system in, is it
> dangerous? Is this a bug?
>
> Also, is there a way to call sync before indicating that a device is safe
> to remove? I don't want to have to mount the device(s) with the sync option
> because this gets v. slow to work with on a usb1 device.
>
> thanks,
>
> rich.