[Bug 484252] Re: Format action wipes all partitions
Peter Berry
pwberry at gmail.com
Sun Nov 27 18:02:06 UTC 2011
If I select an item from a list and click a button that is clearly
visually associated with that box, does it not seem reasonable to infer
that the button's action applies to that item only? Changing the wording
is not enough as you must assume the user is an idiot and won't
interpret the words the same way you do. (Before anyone accuses me of
calling them an idiot, I just hit this bug with the Natty version of
this tool.)
This very serious bug that can and has resulted in catastrophic data
loss has been marked high priority for over a year and still not fixed.
What is going on?
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Title:
Format action wipes all partitions
Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
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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