[Bug 162211] Copying to an external causes lots of missing files

Richard Hartmann richih-kde at richih.org
Sun Oct 19 14:00:12 CEST 2008


http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162211





--- Comment #14 from Richard Hartmann <richih-kde richih org>  2008-10-19 14:00:09 ---
OK, I just copied some stuff to a thumb drive and thought I would try and
recreate the data loss, if possible (normally, I just use CLI).

Here's what I did

* Insert thumb drive
* Click the little plasma widget which informs me that a USB drive has been
connected, this opens Dolphin
* Copy stuff
* Click the volume on the left
* Select safe unmounting

I then ran mount on the CLI and lo, behold:

/dev/sda1 on /media/disk type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000,codepage=437,iocharset=utf8)


Dolphin does NOT complain that it could not unmount the drive! It just fails
and is silent about it. A user will, rightly, expect that it has been unmounted
cleanly.

Unmounting by hand (after moving to a different location within Dolphin as
Dolphin held the mount directory open) works just fine. No data loss.


Can anyone please confirm/deny that they acted in a similar way when their data
loss occured? If you can confirm, we found the issue. If you can't, I will open
a new bug.


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