OK, finally managed to capture a screenshot of this situation... and I've also learned how to reproduce it. I also have a hypothesis regarding why it happens.
A good test case is my Cowon D2 audio player, probably quite common in the Linux world as it plays OGG and Theora, but one can see how this situation may occur in many devices and also normal USB pendrives with multiple partitions. Firstly, the "Safe to remove" message only appears if there was cache to flush to the device, so it's hard to replicate, I believe there is a different bug suggesting that this should be made more consistent. If you request a filesystem to be unmounted, and it has somthing to flush, then when the unmount is complete, the message pops up. It looks at the hardware device name and says that this entire device is safe to remove, but if the device has more than one partition, that may not be true. I am attaching a screenshot of the Cowon, which has one filesystem labeled "D2", and another labeled "16GB_SD2" which is the SD card in the Cowon's card slot. You can see that unmounting the SD card triggers a message that the entire device is safe to remove, despite the fact that another filesystem on that device is still mounted. This was observed on UNR 9.04 on the date shown in the image, but I have also seen it on desktop Ubuntu over a period of time. ** Attachment added: "Incorrect "Safe to remove" message." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30619938/D2_remove.png -- Unmounting a partition on a USB device displays "Safe to remove" even if other partitions are still mounted. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/402968 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
