[Bug 484252] Re: Format action wipes all partitions

[Hesham Saleh]

Faced the same problem and it erased a whole priceless 120 GB of backup
drive instead of a single partition. Fortunately like Daniel
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-
creator/+bug/484252/comments/16), I was lucky enough to be able to
retrieve back the partition table using testdisk and consequently got my
data back again.

This is a very critical bug I see, I don't know about this specific
tool's progress in further versions.

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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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