[Bug 484252] Re: Format action wipes all partitions

[eremos]

Just been bitten by this as well in Oneiric. The dialog does say "entire
disk" but it's still very ambiguous. Primarily because on the main
dialog, in the LABEL and CAPACITY columns, it gives the label and
capacity for the first partition, rather than the entire disk. If THAT
dialog said 320GB instead of 4GB, it would remove all doubt about what
is about to happen.

I'm frankly amazed that this has been open since 2009, given that it can
and has resulted in catastrophic data loss.

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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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