I can confirm that the 'Format' functionality in usb-creator does not work in many cases. An external program must be used to re-format the disk. Formatting needs to wipe the drive completely (use a different tool) and always format to FAT32 in the same manner. FAT16 should not be accepted for reasons of compatibility and filesystem limitations. usb- creator needs to standardize the way it formats disks. Whatever tool is selected (I currently think it uses mkdosfs) should completely wipe the drive in a standard manner (delete all partitions, create an unformatted filesystem and then format the disk as FAT32). I'm not sure how libparted does it, but I have greater success with gparted then with usb-creator and command line tools.
** Summary changed: - usb-creator should reformat fat16 to fat32 before starting + Standardize the formatting process: reformat fat16 to fat32 before starting -- Standardize the formatting process: reformat fat16 to fat32 before starting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296160 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
