Startup Disc Creator

[Nio Wiklund]

Den 2016-09-08 kl. 20:12, skrev Nio Wiklund:
> Den 2016-09-08 kl. 19:55, skrev Alberto Salvia Novella:
>> Ian Bruntlett:
>>> The flash drive is not being recognised. To quote GPartEd, "Unable to
>>> detect file system!".
>>>
>>> Does anyone else have this problem?
>>
>> Yes, I have. I thought the device was broken.
>>
>> Please open a new report about it, and I will confirm and triage it for
>> you.
>>
>> Thanks 👍
>
> Hi Alberto,
>
> This is by intention: This way to create USB boot drives, cloning, is
> very robust, and it solves the long-lasting problem of bugs that has
> plagued the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator (I think since 2011, Ubuntu
> 10.10 was still good).
>
> There are other things to consider:
>
> - this kind of boot drive is read-only [1]
>
> - it is more complicated to restore a standard storage drive [2,3]
>
> - there is no way to create a persistent live drive built into this
> Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator. (So users who want that must use other
> tools, for example [4].
>
> [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/1549603
> [3] https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2314875
> [4] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb#Persistent_live_systems
>
> Best regards
> Nio

Hi again,

Or are you suggesting to file a bug against gparted? Then I am with you :-)

Best regards
Nio