Many Thanks for your assistance. Best Regards
John On 4/9/20 12:33 PM, sudodus wrote: > Your observation is correct and I have seen it too. RAM is bigger and > processes are buffering in RAM more aggressively in recent computers > with recent versions of linux operating systems. Be aware that also > Windows uses this feature and for that reason you must 'remove the USB > drive safely' or your data on it might get corrupted also in Windows. > > For this reason I check flushing the buffers in the new tool to create > USB boot drives, mkusb-plug. If you install mkusb-plug, it will bring > the shellscript watch-flush, that you can use as a stand-alone program, > or use it via the zenity GUI as I use it in mkusb-plug. > > It would certainly be possible to do something similar also in Files > alias nautilus. > > There are pros and cons to let nautilus wait while the buffers are > flushed when writing to removable drives, but I agree with your point: > > Newbies might be tricked into yanking a USB pendrive before the buffers > are flushed. Also more experienced users might forget about > unmounting/ejecting. So if nautilus (or maybe a dedicated system > service) will show on the desktop that there are still buffered data > (alias 'dirty' data) waiting to be written to a removable drive, many > users will avoid problems with corrupted files and file systems. > -- 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/1871869 Title: Nautilus copy task status is not accurate. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1871869/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
