Public bug reported:
Ubuntu 7.04 - When copying large files or folders containing many files, an
error message occurs stating it is unsafe to remove the drive. Usually this
happens when the copy is near complete, but only a small amount of the copy, if
any, is found on the drive being copied to. The Desktop icon remains and can be
opened displaying the drives content, but doing so appears to create an extra
entry is /media, and .hal-mtab, and if the drive is ejected only the second
entry is removed, and the drive will not remount without rebooting the system
which appears to clear an also lingering entry in /dev.
In this case I had mounted the external drive a week or so ago and it was seen
as /dev/sda/sda1 and /media/new volume. Since that time I have also made use of
memory sticks copying files with no problem and they show up as /dev/sdb1.
At the moment the 500GB drive is connected and I have an entry in /dev/sda1,
but /media shows no entry for the drive label and .hal-mtab is empty, nor has
an icon appeared. I'm also at a loss as to why the drive is attempting to mount
as sdb/sdb1 rather than sda/sda1 as it was previously.
I frequently copy small files less than 1 GB with no problem and only encounter
this problem when trying to copy large files. The drive is formatted ntfs.
At the moment I am trying to determine how I should unplug the drive as I'm not
sure if it is partially mounted and simply unplugging it would cause data
corruption or not.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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USB ports unreliable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300958
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