On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Steve Langasek <[email protected]> wrote: > We don't necessarily need to support installing to a single partition on > the disk if that's error-prone in other ways, but we should definitely > make it clear that the entire disk will be formatted.
This is already the case. The button says "Erase Disk" not "Erase Partition." I'm happy with us being explicit about it to avoid the confusion of selecting what looks like a partition and then acting on the entire device. I think this would entail throwing up a dialog that said "The entire contents of $USB_DEVICE_NAME will be lost. Do you want to continue?" I do not think just formatting a partition is the right approach for the reasons I outlined in my previous comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/484252/comments/7 Adding to that list, usb-creator and other tools write to the MBR, which would not be cleared by just wiping the partition and its VBR. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484252 Title: Format action wipes all partitions To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-creator/+bug/484252/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
