Impossible to format a USB who contains bootable ISO

Bug #1595927 reported by Hangman
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Disks
Unknown
Unknown
gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

When you try to format a bootable USB you have the following error :

This partition cannot be modified because it contains a partition table; please reinitialize layout of the whole device. (udisks-error-quark, 11)

and it's impossible to format.

I think it's related to this bug : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76178

Here another bug details and temporary solution : http://askubuntu.com/questions/758219/how-can-i-delete-all-partion-of-my-pen-drive-and-create-a-single-volume

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.18.3.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Jun 24 13:15:52 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-26 (90 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160323)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Hangman (hangman-hotmail) wrote :
summary: - Impossible to format a USB when contains bootable ISO
+ Impossible to format a USB who contains bootable ISO
description: updated
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Hangman (hangman-hotmail) wrote :

Thank you for the answer. I filled a bug here :
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768031

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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kinjal (kinjalch) wrote :

The problem can be avoided by using gparted to format the usb drive

Changed in gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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