[Bug 484252] Re: Format action wipes all partitions

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 04/05/12 19:04, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Dmitrijs, I believe you have some expertise here; can you have a look at
> fixing this?
> 
> We don't necessarily need to support installing to a single partition on
> the disk if that's error-prone in other ways, but we should definitely
> make it clear that the entire disk will be formatted.  I've experienced
> (non-data-loss) problems myself before where selecting a partition on
> the target USB device didn't do what I expected, so I think the
> selection screen needs clarifying.
> 

I wonder why we offer format button at all.

Possibly we should launch the gnome 'Disk Utility' (can't find command
name just now)

I'll look into this issue. With branch proposals.
-- 
Regards,
Dmitrijs.

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Title:
  Format action wipes all partitions

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: usb-creator

  I have two partitions on my stick: FAT-32 boot partition and Ext-4 without journal one. So, the program shows: 1) FAT partions, Ext 4 partition, Whole drive.
  I can only choose one item in the list: fat, ext4 or whole drive. I suppose the utility only formats selected partition (and leaves other ones alone) or formats the whole drive into Fat-32. But it doesn't. It formats the whole stick into one big Fat-32 partition, which is highly inconsistent.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Nov 17 18:41:18 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.12
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-020632rc6-generic x86_64

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