[Bug 1549603] Re: Please clearly document how users can return usb drive to a storage drive or better yet provide a means to do so

[Doug McMahon]

A button
There should be an obvious to it's use button that opens a confirmation 
dialogue & if accepted restores the chosen device to storage, ie. FAT32
No options, just basically ask for permission to take care of this & 
confirm chosen device (which should be chosen  by SDC with 100% accuracy 
that it is a SDC created boot/live disk

On 03/16/2016 01:41 AM, sudodus wrote:
> @ Doug McMahon:
>
> Can you specify in detail what you want,please!
>
> Maybe you can give an example.
>
> -o-
>
> On the other hand, there is a lot of instructions that promote
>
> dd if=distro.iso of=/dev/sdx
>
> at the web pages of several major linux distros. And I seldom see any
> warning or hint how to restore the pendrive to a data storage drive with
> an MSDOS partition table and FAT32 file system.
>
> I don't say it is good, and you certainly have a point, but I think many
> people, maybe particularly people who read bug reports, think it is
> trivial to use gparted or some other tool. So I think you have to use
> other channels too in order to create opinion and make something happen.
>

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Title:
  Please clearly document how users can return usb drive to a storage
  drive or better yet provide a means to do so

Status in usb-creator package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  While sdc now works well it creates partitioning/formatting that the default installed Disks app cannot deal with. This will make it hard for users to return the usb drive to use as a storage device after using to install *buntu.
  Test case:
  Create a boot/install drive with sdc.
  Open Disks app & try to format the drive to a usable storage format or try to delete either of the 2 partitions sdc created.
  What happens : operations fail, see attached screens.

  One method that works requires users to install gparted, dismiss the
  error popups (disconcerting), then figure out they need to create a
  fresh partition table.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.3.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-6.21-generic 4.4.1
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-6-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Feb 24 23:09:12 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-02 (22 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160131)
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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