Comment 16 for bug 484252

This bug just had my 500GB external hard drive erased (after the first shock I was luckily able to restore it with testdisk). I happened to press the "Erase Disk" button after having selected the partition I wanted to erase (I know the definition of disk and partition of course, but many people - and even the UI of a popular OS - use the two terms interchangedly, and selecting a partition first seemed like a very direct and precise declaration of what I want the program to do, so I thought the button label wasn't technically accurate), so the Erase Disk button label is not a good solution (even temporaly).
As I think this is a very serious problem, I'm asking you to please do something quickly to prevent this from happening again with someone else. I think the format option should be disabled in the Lucid version (in an update, as soon as possible, people still can format patitions using gparted) until the new version solving the issue comes out (I think that a program version that has fewer features is still better than a version which is potentionally dangerous - until the new release comes out in October many people wil have deleted important data, especionally as this program is intended for people with little technical knowledge).