Linux MINT 21.1 USB Eject - writing data
Mint USB flash-drive option auto-mount is ON.
Selecting unmount or eject produces a message: "There is data to be written to xxx before it can be dis-mounted" The USB busy-lamp flashes constantly, for what reason ? The USB disks are new, pre-formatted as FAT32, and empty ! I tested other old flash disks with diff formats, same problem. Last test- Mounted USB SATA HD 4GB with 6 partitions. The select-lamp is ON but not flashing, I take that as 'idle'. Unmount or Eject simply turns the lamp off. Sanity test- Same flash-drives in two old laptops, LinuxLite & WattOS, both unmount as normal. Any and all help is appreciated. |
Check iotop and maybe lsof to see what's happening.
|
Quote:
Also, if you tried different drives/formats, you could very well have file-indexing turned on, which is trying to index that mounted drive (since you auto-mounted it). That process has to stop, so that means there is data in process going to/from that drive...leading to a message. The fact that the older laptops don't do it is a good indication of this; indexing and other such things weren't common in several 'light' distros. |
I have retro-graded back to release 20. Problems are gone.
|
i HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM IN LINUS MINT 21
I have the same problem in Linux Mint 21. It never happens in Linux 20 for me either.
|
Recently completed a "distro-dance" of distrowatch's 64bit top dozen. They ALL have this 'ailment',,, some worse than others.
I found Manjaro seems to handle this better,,, I could mount/search/dismount without messages. Writing on the USB, will cause a 'safe dismount' message to appear in the file manager. However,,, writing a 1GB++ amount will cause Manjaro to pause writing, do something else???, then resume writing. I suppose its flushing a buffer on the hard-drive. My machine does not have activity lights, its kinda boring, no messages ! |
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:30 AM. |