[Bug 446891] Re: Should warn that formatting will erase the entire contents of the device (all partitions).

[Hesham Saleh]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 484252 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484252

Horrible experience with this program !!!!! 120 GB of PRICELESS data got
lots !!!!

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Title:
  Should warn that formatting will erase the entire contents of the
  device (all partitions).

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: usb-creator-gtk

  In Beta Karmic I went to make a bootable usb drive with the Karmic
  iso.  My USB drive was formatted with 3 partitions; 750 MB fat32 with
  Jaunty OS, and 2 ext2 partitions.

  The fat32 partition did not have enough room and I selected Format
  from the program.  Instead of formatting the partition that I had
  selected, the program reformatted the entire USB drive as one fat32
  partition, destroying all data.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  CheckboxSubmission: b35b06d4b174bc3c76c37c39a58931b1
  CheckboxSystem: 0531969bcfd4f03af7405c98dc94a948
  Date: Fri Oct  9 03:07:06 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Beta i386 (20090929.2)
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
  SourcePackage: yelp
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

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