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[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The safely remove actually forces the data to be written on the disk.

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, that might mean I have another issue as well. Since safely remove would just remove the device instantly without waiting...

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

For me, sometimes with huge files even if the copy process ended, and I do a "safely remove", sometimes I still have to wait a big chunk of time. Safely remove is actually safe, nothing should be left. I also thought this was a feature of the filesystem, where it caches and optimizes the actions before doing it under the hood.

With something like System Monitor you should be able to see if anything is writing or reading on the filesystem constantly, before you do a disk remove.