Ubuntu

USB storage left mounted when hibernating

Bug #132457 reported by Kimmo Sundqvist
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Brian Murray

Bug Description

If hibernating a machine with an USB storage device attached and mounted, and then accidentally or otherwise disconnecting the storage device, there is an announcement about that after starting the machine up again. There is also a warning about possible data loss.

I suggest that suspending or hibernating the machine would sync and "freeze" USB storage devices. This would minimize the damage done by an unsafe removal, and would possibly even allow the reinserting of an accidentally removed device soon after resuming. In cases when the device is physically gone, and no files were logically open on the device, i.e. it was only mounted, this syncing would allow the safe "late unmounting" of the device.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

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Kimmo Sundqvist (kimmo-sundqvist) wrote :

Haven't used any USB disks for a while now. Ubuntu somehow lost my swap partition, i.e. suddenly can't find it by its UUID anymore. I did a quick fix to /etc/fstab by changing its name to /dev/sdaX notation. It works as a swap now, but last time I checked, I'm still unable to hibernate this machine. My Ubuntu is 7.06 Feisty. If there is already a feature in Gutsy that matches my suggestion, I might consider that in a decision to upgrade.

I'll see if I can get back to this someday soon.

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