[Bug 577513] Re: Startup Disk Creator behavior

[KernelPanic]

I agree. Labels are correct but one does not assume the entire drive is
wiped off.

I consider myself an advanced (and usually careful) user, but I put my
16Gb pendrive (3 primary partitions) and had it mistakenly wiped off.
Maybe because I assumed what I thought it was "normal" behavior I saw in
other softwares (namely http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/).

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Title:
  Startup Disk Creator behavior

Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  Triaged
Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  "erase entire disk" is a handy inclusion, potentially saving the use in parallel of gPartEd. 
  USB Startup Disk Creator wipes off ALL partitions when you use the format function, and re-creates a new partition structure. 

  This is simply wrong, because we don't use 1GB flash disks anymore -
  they are 4, 8, 16!  And who wants to dedicate a 16GB usb stick for a
  1DB distro?  (oh,. and the util doesn't let you set aside more than
  4GB anyways for data - and that's kind of useless, because we usually
  will use the remainder of a larger usb stick for other stuff than
  session saving).

  This app would be far more useful if it allowed you to keep partitions
  as-is - the checkbox "erase entire disk" should be relabelled as
  "reformat sdb1" and perform that function instead.

  As it is now, it is labelled properly, but an intelligent individual
  assumes "nawwww... they surely wouldn't erase an entire 16GB usb drive
  for a 1GB distro!  it'll leave the other partition alone... lets check
  the box"...!  LOL

  I lost of 5.5 GB of data.

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