Just been bitten by this as well in Oneiric. The dialog does say "entire
disk" but it's still very ambiguous. Primarily because on the main
dialog, in the LABEL and CAPACITY columns, it gives the label and
capacity for the first partition, rather than the entire disk. If THAT
dialog said 320GB instead of 4GB, it would remove all doubt about what
is about to happen.

I'm frankly amazed that this has been open since 2009, given that it can
and has resulted in catastrophic data loss.

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