** Description changed: - Binary package hint: devicekit-disks + If you try to unmount a busy device you will get an error message. However, that error message is completely useless to people without a specific knowledge, i.e. knowing how to use the 'lsof' command. + Ideally a dialogue would show up showing what processes are preventing you from unmounting it, including a "Force" button and PolicyKit integration. - Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64 - WD passport 500GB USB drive + However, this is a bit of work, so a temporary solution could be to make + the error message clearer, e.g. "The device you're trying to unmount is + currently still in use by one or more applications. Please close those + first." - Safely remove drive fails to unmount if data was written to drive. - (safely unmounts if no data is written to drive) - - - There is a popup with the animated writing to disk. When that completes, there is a new popup with: - Unable to stop drive - Failed to eject media; one or more volumes on the media are busy. - - The drive is not unmounted and still shows up as sdc1 - - r...@imperial-command:~# fdisk -l - - Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes - 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders - Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes - Disk identifier: 0xa059ec2b - - Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System - /dev/sda1 * 1 61 489951 83 Linux - /dev/sda2 62 60801 487894050 83 Linux - - Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes - 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders - Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes - Disk identifier: 0x6da154e0 - - Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System - /dev/sdc1 1 60801 488384001 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) - r...@imperial-command:~# + The original description stated that the error message mentioned above + is only triggered when there has been data written.
-- Unhelpful error message when trying to unmount busy device https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486024 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
