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I wonder what is the benefit of scanning external drives that are mounted only temporarily, especially when connecting other people's USB sticks.
Since mediascanner is a process that was not launched manually by the user, the confirmation on removal (device busy) is redundant, instead mediascanner could probably shutdown silently whenever unmounting of the device is requested (ie. unmounting should be done by no more than one click in nautilus sidebar etc.).
The risk of bricking your own or even worse other people's USB stick by improper removal (if a process is unperceivedly still running on the drive) is too high so that it is questionable whether mediascanner should run at all on external drives. I think this is a very critical situation.