This seems to be very orphaned, but I'm going to ping it again as well:
There is the note to "Please back up important data before using the
write benchmark.", but it's not clear if that's a "we *will* delete your
data" warning, or a "we *might* delete your data, but we'll try not to."
Some
I have no clue, or I had no clue whether it was destructive or not. I
still don't know.
Actually it seems to have just wiped my partition table.
There was a GPT partition table on there and it is gone.
It tells you to back up your data but that is a warning given by many
programs that are
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility
- This is a bug about Benchmark utility in gnome-dick-utility.
+ This is a bug about Benchmark utility in gnome-disk-utility.
There is no warning / info if read / write tests are destructive or safe
to be used on a live
Update: based on the description and screenshot at
http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/09/21/benchmark-how-to-know-your-
hard-disk-speed/ it appears that if you do ask to proceed with a write-
only check, if it then notices that there is a partition table, it
refuses to do the write test. So
I can confirm the first aspect of the bug for Natty - there is an are
you sure confirmation dialog about doing a read-write test, but no hint
as to whether it is destructive, or how it would manage to avoid
overwriting real files. I assume it needs to have a good understanding
of the file system
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Title:
benchmark window is not descriptive enough
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