Workaround: apart from workarounds involving "sync" etc from command- line or always using command-line tools, the only way I have found to make all the GUI tools behave properly with "Eject" is to add the "sync" mount option.
While an explicit fstab entry can do it, the more user friendly way is to open the gnome-disks utility, click on gears "More action" icon after the drive has been inserted, then "Edit Mount Options", then unselect automatic mount option in the new window, then add "sync" separated by a comma after the list of options that are shown in the fourth text box. One can select "/dev/sdb1" or whatever be the case in "Identy As" select box instead of the specific USB so that this works for all USB drives, but then it will not work for drives that are on other locations like /dev/sdc1. Perhaps one can repeat the same for all such possibiities, but one cannot be sure to cover all cases or cases where /dev/sdb1 is not a USB flash drive. This could potentially use the more complex matching criteria which I was a bit familiar with in the udev rules in older releases, but I don't know if that still works with the new infrastructure (perhaps need to look through udisks docs). Either way adding "sync" is just a workaround and not the solution to this problem since adding that potentially loses on a lot of overall performance benefits of kernel filesystem cache. Proper solution will be to correctly unmount the drive (e.g. like what "udisks --unmount /dev/sdb1" does) and then eject. Not sure how the software manages to eject without even unmounting in the first place. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1336184 Title: USB flash drive keeps writing for quite a while even after "Eject" completes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1336184/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
