Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: kubuntu-desktop
Hi there,
yesterday I plugged a 512MB MP3 pendrive in my kubuntu edgy powered laptop and
started to copy there about 300MB of MP3s: just few seconds and for the KDE
interface everything was copied there!!!
But we all know this is a trick of the filesystem management under linux: it is
saying that everything was done but it deserves to do the real work when it
thinks it is a better time.
So I went in the desktop and right-clicked on the MP3 player icon and I choose
"Safe unmount" (or whatever it is..): almost immediately the device was
unmounted and... guess what... not all 300MB where really copied!
I plugged the device again, copied files again from KDE (no more than 5 secs
and the operatione was done) and I opened a new konsole:
> sudo umount /dev/sdb
This, obviously, fixed the problem: after 4-5 minutes the prompt came
back and all the data was written there.
I think this is really a nasty bug!!!
Bye
Piero
** Affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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USB safe unmount from desktop data corruption
https://launchpad.net/bugs/82094
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