Sebastien, I was able to reproduce this just like Andree said. After copying several large files, Nautilus keeps writing them in background and displays the reported message when the user tries to eject, long after the progress dialog has closed:
$ while true; do date; df -m /media/ariel/Samsung\ USB/_fun/ | sed 1d; sleep 30; done Mon Jul 11 08:36:49 VET 2016 /dev/sde1 15280 10629 4652 70% /media/ariel/Samsung USB Mon Jul 11 08:37:19 VET 2016 /dev/sde1 15280 11215 4066 74% /media/ariel/Samsung USB Mon Jul 11 08:37:49 VET 2016 /dev/sde1 15280 11667 3614 77% /media/ariel/Samsung USB Mon Jul 11 08:38:19 VET 2016 /dev/sde1 15280 12045 3236 79% /media/ariel/Samsung USB Mon Jul 11 08:38:49 VET 2016 /dev/sde1 15280 12467 2814 82% /media/ariel/Samsung USB Mon Jul 11 08:39:19 VET 2016 /dev/sde1 15280 12884 2397 85% /media/ariel/Samsung USB Mon Jul 11 08:39:49 VET 2016 /dev/sde1 15280 13164 2117 87% /media/ariel/Samsung USB Mon Jul 11 08:40:19 VET 2016 /dev/sde1 15280 13164 2117 87% /media/ariel/Samsung USB Mon Jul 11 08:40:49 VET 2016 /dev/sde1 15280 13164 2117 87% /media/ariel/Samsung USB $ lsof +D /media/ariel/Samsung\ USB/ lsof: WARNING: can't stat() tracefs file system /sys/kernel/debug/tracing Output information may be incomplete. COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME nautilus 1667 ariel 56w REG 8,65 2419224576 1467 /media/ariel/Samsung USB/_fun/Evangelion Rebuild/Evangelion 3.33 - You Can (Not) Redo.mp4 My Nautilus version is 3.14.2-0ubuntu13 (Wily). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/562188 Title: Cannot unmount USB flash drive because volume is busy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/562188/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs