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KDE Fixes 15 Year Old Bug Over Inaccurate Notifications When Copying Files To USB Drives
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I have hated "Safely Remove" from back when I was on Windows.
Always did weird GUI stuff and does on this too.
So I just use
syncand when it properly finishes, I do safely remove.I always assumed "safely remove" is just a umount which in turn does the sync before returning.
Yes. I do too.
But historically, the way it has indicated "working" in cases it takes more than a second, has been not very reliable.
Specially on Ubuntu + GNOME back when I had to use it in the office.
I type
sync, then unmount/eject, then safely removeCan't be too careful
If you still have the safely remove option after running "unmount/eject", I need to know what device you used.
Same, waiting for sync -f to finish would help most of the time.
TIL,
ddhas the optionconv=fsyncthat makes it wait until all writing is finished, before exiting.So you can just
touch /path/to/new/filenameand thendd ... of=/path/to/new/filename conv=fsyncOf course, you would have to do this for each file, in case it is multiple