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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

GNOME does exactly the same thing.

very noticeable and annoying when transferring to slower media like usb sticks, sometimes it takes tens of minutes to unmount after copying a large file because its actually still writing.

i bet MANY people are left with halfway stuff written on their usbs after being in a rush and removing it insecurely on linux after the transfer is "done". this should absolutely NOT be a thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

i bet MANY people are left with halfway stuff written on their usbs after being in a rush and removing it insecurely on linux after the transfer is “done”.

AFAIK it can actually destroy the USB if it's removed while being written.