Comment 12 for bug 1549603

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote : Re: [Bug 1549603] Re: Please clearly document how users can return usb drive to a storage drive or better yet provide a means to do so

A button
There should be an obvious to it's use button that opens a confirmation
dialogue & if accepted restores the chosen device to storage, ie. FAT32
No options, just basically ask for permission to take care of this &
confirm chosen device (which should be chosen by SDC with 100% accuracy
that it is a SDC created boot/live disk

On 03/16/2016 01:41 AM, sudodus wrote:
> @ Doug McMahon:
>
> Can you specify in detail what you want,please!
>
> Maybe you can give an example.
>
> -o-
>
> 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.
>