On the other hand, there is a lot of instructions that promote
dd if=distro.iso of=/dev/sdx
at the web pages of several major linux distros. And I seldom see any warning or hint how to restore the pendrive to a data storage drive with an MSDOS partition table and FAT32 file system.
I don't say it is good, and you certainly have a point, but I think many people, maybe particularly people who read bug reports, think it is trivial to use gparted or some other tool. So I think you have to use other channels too in order to create opinion and make something happen.
@ Doug McMahon:
Can you specify in detail what you want,please!
Maybe you can give an example.
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On the other hand, there is a lot of instructions that promote
dd if=distro.iso of=/dev/sdx
at the web pages of several major linux distros. And I seldom see any warning or hint how to restore the pendrive to a data storage drive with an MSDOS partition table and FAT32 file system.
I don't say it is good, and you certainly have a point, but I think many people, maybe particularly people who read bug reports, think it is trivial to use gparted or some other tool. So I think you have to use other channels too in order to create opinion and make something happen.