Daniel I agree with you. The solution implemented does not address the
original concern. IMHO it would have been better to remove the
reformatting functionality entirely, or else remove it from the LiveCD
and default installation.
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I'm surprised that this has not been fixed. It has been a problem for
several Ubuntu releases, long before the Lucid freeze - and it is
destroying peoples' data.
I think the idea of greying out the format button when a partition
rather than a device is selected is a good one. This caters for
This bug just had my 500GB external hard drive erased (after the first shock I
was luckily able to restore it with testdisk). I happened to press the Erase
Disk button after having selected the partition I wanted to erase (I know the
definition of disk and partition of course, but many people -
I've changed the button's label to Erase Disk for Lucid. Any further
changes will have to wait for Maverick, for the reasons I've mentioned
above.
** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None = later
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You
I have a 2GB usb drive split into two 1GB partitions. I dont recall
what format and usb-creator just formatted both. I used sdb2 to hold
the lucid iso that i zsync'd and sdb1 to make into an install partition.
usb-creator listed /dev/sdb, with sdb1 and sdb2 in the tree. I loaded up
usb-creator
FYI: We have been in UI and String freeze for more than a month now.
Please refer to both UI and String Freeze documentation.
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In the attachment i send the change that would be needed for the gtk-
frontend. Works fine for me like that.
I think only changing the text is an alibi solution. Afterwards you can tell
someone who deleted all his data that he should have read.
If I want to format a partition, I'm expecting to
It was not unintentional, but I agree that the current UI is confusing
in this matter. In Maverick, we should change the button label to Wipe
Disk and change the description in the following dialog to note that
this operation will clear the entire disk, not just the selected
partition.
There are
Having multiple partitions that you care about is maybe not the common case,
but as described also in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446891 (Should maybe marked as duplicate of
this one)
it is present. Especially on external hard drives.
If there is no support for formatting single partitions,
Evan, I agree with Laurens last comment. Perhaps we should have the UI
disable the format button if a partition is selected and not the
parent drive. Is there anything barring us from doing that?
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We do not have time to consider the potential fallout from making the
format button sensitive/insensitive based on whether or not the device
is a disk or partition. We're in freeze for lucid beta 2.
For Lucid, I am keen to just change the text, as that's fairly safe, and
consider a better
Evan, Im good with that. Maybe we should also change the text in the
warning dialog from:
Are you sure you want to format the device?
to:
Are you sure you want to format the entire device (/dev/sda)?
or something like that.
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** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 443330
USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks
** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = High
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The issue is here in the backend code:
def format(self, device):
try:
dk = self.bus.get_object(DISKS_IFACE, device)
logging.debug('def format(%s)' % device)
device = dk.Get(device, 'device-file', dbus_interface=PROPS_IFACE)
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 443330 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/443330
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 443330
USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks
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usbcreator/frontends/gtk/frontend.py line 663:
def format_dest_clicked(self, *args):
# FIXME evand 2009-04-30: This needs a big warning dialog.
model, iterator = self.dest_treeview.get_selection().get_selected()
if not iterator:
return
udi =
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35786412/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: XsessionErrors.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35786413/XsessionErrors.txt
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Just to be clear, are you saying that you told it to format one of the
two partitions, and it then formated the entire device instead?
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Status: New = Incomplete
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Yes, when I choose one partition, it formats the entire stick.
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I just reproduced this on my machine. I used a 2GB thumb drive split
into a 1GB FAT and 1GB Ext4 partition.
usb-creator appears to be offering the choice to format any given
partition, and in fact specifies that the ext4 partition would need to
be formated in order to turn it into a startup disk.
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