[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

[Michał Gołębiowski]

While I agree that this bug is severe, losing person's most important
data is the fault of this person itself. It is irresponsible beyond
imagination to keep all such important things just in one place. There
are loads of things that could happen to that drive beyond formatting it
by mistake; most of all, drives just brake from time to time. Keeping
two copies is an absolute minimum and I personally tend to keep my
really most important data at least in 3 places, one of which is not the
drive I keep at home.

It amazes me that so many people are still making this very same huge
mistake.

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Title:
  USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting
  disks

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: usb-creator

  Something horrible happened to me today, but with testdisk and quick
  reaction i got all my files back.

  If you have usb-stick and a removable harddisk attached, and you dont
  look at it at 100 % (difference between /dev/sdc and sdb) you can
  format your harddisk without beeing asked again, just with one click!

  I consider myself as an experienced user, but this happened to me
  today (totaly my own fault) But still, it would be great if before
  formatting the stick you ask again:

  "Are you shure you want do format /dev/sdx &PARTITIONDESCRIPTIONS this
  will delete all your data at this drive"

  thats a typical thing you suspect to be asked before really formatting
  a drive. Hope you consider this.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct  5 19:40:00 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: usb-creator-common 0.2.9
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

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