[Bug 484252] Re: Format action wipes all partitions
Nigel Atkinson
484252 at bugs.launchpad.net
Wed Jan 18 22:33:00 UTC 2012
"That's OSS for you, don't get your hopes up."
This bug and it's failure to be fixed is not representative of OSS.
I've seen bugs fixed minutes after I've submitted a bug report. Several
times.
That said I first found and reported this YEARS ago when using Hardy
Heron. I find it amazing that a bug that potentially destroys users
data, has been known about and lasted so long.
Hopefully this is not representative of Ubuntu, but I don't bother
submitting bug reports anymore.
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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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