[Bug 1936939] [NEW] Enhancement: Add multi-partition support on flash drives

[Howard Chu]

Public bug reported:

These days a typical flash drive has much larger capacity than a typical
OS iso image. It's a shame to waste all the extra space just to load a
single OS image. It would be nice to add an option to copy the OS image
to a specific partition of the flash drive instead. I've been doing this
manually so far, but would prefer a simple UI for it. Aside from
installing the bootsector, you also need to toggle the boot flag on the
desired partition. This also allows a single flash drive to be used to
switch between multiple OS images, just by setting the boot flag on the
particular partition.

** Affects: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Enhancement: Add multi-partition support on flash drives

Status in usb-creator package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  These days a typical flash drive has much larger capacity than a
  typical OS iso image. It's a shame to waste all the extra space just
  to load a single OS image. It would be nice to add an option to copy
  the OS image to a specific partition of the flash drive instead. I've
  been doing this manually so far, but would prefer a simple UI for it.
  Aside from installing the bootsector, you also need to toggle the boot
  flag on the desired partition. This also allows a single flash drive
  to be used to switch between multiple OS images, just by setting the
  boot flag on the particular partition.

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