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Timeout for 'safely remove usb-stick'

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Wednesday, September 19th 2007, 8:42am

Timeout for 'safely remove usb-stick'

I use kde from debian etch. When I plug in a usb-stick I get an icon on the desktop which I can double click in order to mount the volume and open a window displaying its contents. I dont use the sync option. So, copying to the stick seems very fast on the gui, since everything is written to the cache. However, when closing the window and trying to ‘safely remove’ the stick, This takes a long time and often results in an error message saying that some processes are still using the stick. I think what kde does is umount the stick and that takes a long time, since the write cache hast be emptyed first. But the timeout for this operation is to short.

Is there any way to increase this timeout? Even better would be to have a small progress bar, that shows how much data has to bewritten before the stick can be umounted. Is there any way to get such an application?

Jürgen