“You need to manually eject your USB drive before you remove it” - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
Also, half the time when you try to eject it, it says “device busy” even though I’m not transferring files. Well, best of luck with that bud, I’m busy too yank
Could be just your file browser (“explorer”) that has a window open with the content of that device, or maybe some program has a hiccup and didn’t free it’s file pointer
had that under linux too, because there’s still buffer to be written; but under linux i can at least check /proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes to see how long it will take.
In the worst-case scenario, yes… but the wording on the Windows dialog literally says, “There is a problem with your device and you should scan it” and then when you do, “Your device is ready to use, no problems were found.” This, after it was ejected and got the safe removal notification. 🤷♂️
The file system was not unmounted cleanly so the dirty bit is 1 -> windows tells you to check the drive. This clears the dirty bit even if nothing was wrong.
“There’s a problem with your USB storage device”
*Continues to work just fine, just as if there is no problem*
Its because you didnt eject beforehand and theres orphaned inodes or data blocks
“You need to manually eject your USB drive before you remove it” - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
Also, half the time when you try to eject it, it says “device busy” even though I’m not transferring files. Well, best of luck with that bud, I’m busy too yank
That’s because some program still accesses it
Could be just your file browser (“explorer”) that has a window open with the content of that device, or maybe some program has a hiccup and didn’t free it’s file pointer
had that under linux too, because there’s still buffer to be written; but under linux i can at least check /proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes to see how long it will take.
No, it’s because I use it on linux and windows can tell. Windows hates me for my freedom.
Oh right that.
Sorry its been a while since I’ve used windows
They hate us because they ain’t us.
In the worst-case scenario, yes… but the wording on the Windows dialog literally says, “There is a problem with your device and you should scan it” and then when you do, “Your device is ready to use, no problems were found.” This, after it was ejected and got the safe removal notification. 🤷♂️
The file system was not unmounted cleanly so the dirty bit is 1 -> windows tells you to check the drive. This clears the dirty bit even if nothing was wrong.
Except I always eject…
“That’s what she said” *laugh track*
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“You need to format your USB drive” when there’s a perfectly usable FAT partition, which just happens to not be the first partition on the drive