diff --git a/src/fs/file.rs b/src/fs/file.rs
index 9a4ab77b4..bfe8f0b93 100644
--- a/src/fs/file.rs
+++ b/src/fs/file.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ use crate::fs::{Metadata, Permissions};
 use crate::future;
 use crate::io::{self, Read, Seek, SeekFrom, Write};
 use crate::path::Path;
-use crate::prelude::*;
 use crate::task::{spawn_blocking, Context, Poll, Waker};
 use crate::utils::Context as _;
 
@@ -315,7 +314,7 @@ impl Drop for File {
         // non-blocking fashion, but our only other option here is losing data remaining in the
         // write cache. Good task schedulers should be resilient to occasional blocking hiccups in
         // file destructors so we don't expect this to be a common problem in practice.
-        let _ = futures_lite::future::block_on(self.flush());
+        (&*self.file).flush().ok();
     }
 }