Hi, this afternoon I realized I have the same problem. I never noticed before because i often work with FAT32 or EXT filesystems, that aren't affected from this problem
** Tags added: trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1336184 Title: USB flash drive (NTFS) keeps writing for quite a while even after "Eject" completes Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Release: Ubuntu 14.04 Nautilus version: 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.1 Expected: After pressing "Eject" on a flash drive (formatted with NTFS -- haven't tried with FAT yet) I expected it to return only after flushing and unmounting the drive so the drive is completely safe to remove at that point What happened: "Eject" returned after a short while. The drive still kept writing for a long time. Mount shows the drive still mounted for the period while the flash drive keeps blinking though "df" does not show the drive anymore. Removing the drive at this point results in partial file write and NTFS filesystem damage (fixable with ntfsfix but dangerous). Steps to reproduce: 1) Insert a flash drive (tried with NTFS mounted drive though I believe FAT will show similar behaviour though latter uses "flush" mount option so may not be that prominent) 2) Try copying a large file. For testing use a size that will also mostly fit into filesystem cache so that real wait for writing is during unmount: dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/<user>/<drive>/test.out bs=1M count=1000 <user> is the user name and <drive> the name where drive was mounted by nautilus as per the label. 3) "Eject" the drive from nautilus context menu after dd command above returns. 4) Eject returns shortly. However drive is still writing as seen by the blinking, or disk throughput in gkrellm, iostat. Also note that "mount" still shows the drive as mounted though "df" and other tools don't. I have confirmed the same issue exists on all similar file managers namely nemo and caja. Haven't filed bugs against those yet. For comparison, the gnome-disks system utility correctly unmounts, ejects and stops the drive (last one even powers down the drive so the LED on drive is switched off which one would expect nautilus "Eject" to also do) so it doesn't seem to be a bug in udisks2. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1336184/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
