• Kairos
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    1422 days ago

    Its because you didnt eject beforehand and theres orphaned inodes or data blocks

    • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      “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

      • @naeap@sopuli.xyz
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        722 days ago

        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

      • A Wild Mimic appears!
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        120 days ago

        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.

    • @f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz
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      1122 days ago

      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. 🤷‍♂️

      • @FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi
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        121 days ago

        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.