Monday, March 16, 2026

tumblerd prevents disk from being ejected on Linux

When trying to eject a USB external disk, a message along the lines of "process tumblerd is currently using the disk, eject anyway?"


Since I had a very large number of images on that drive, and I had just saved an mp4 file onto the drive, tumblerd was probably creating thumbnails for all of the multimedia files. So, did 

killall -HUP tumblerd

and then the disk could be ejected.
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