Scanning for all devices on startup is a design decision dating back to the initial development of GParted.
A work-around to scanning only the devices required is to pass these on the commmand line to gparted. You are free to submit a patch upstream [1] to alter this behaviour. [1] http://gparted.org -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698630 Title: Gparted Start scans whole system, even i want format usb device To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1698630/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs