Comment 37 for bug 484252

That's OSS for you, don't get your hopes up. I've been watching this bug
thread for an year and counting...

On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, jah0wl <email address hidden> wrote:
> Please, we need this bug to be fixed. I have just lost all the data in
> my USB hard disk. When you use a translated version (Im using spanish
> one) and you read "erase disk", when you have selected just one
> partition, you think it will erase the partition you selected, because:
> 1st: you selected a partition not a whole disk. 2nd: The translation are
> not always the best they can be, and you may think "disk" wasn't
> transalated as well as it could be possible.... We need this bug to be
> fixed!!
>
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> Title:
> Format action wipes all partitions
>
> Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: usb-creator
>
> I have two partitions on my stick: FAT-32 boot partition and Ext-4
without journal one. So, the program shows: 1) FAT partions, Ext 4
partition, Whole drive.
> I can only choose one item in the list: fat, ext4 or whole drive. I
suppose the utility only formats selected partition (and leaves other ones
alone) or formats the whole drive into Fat-32. But it doesn't. It formats
the whole stick into one big Fat-32 partition, which is highly inconsistent.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Tue Nov 17 18:41:18 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: usb-creator-gtk 0.2.12
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: usb-creator
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-020632rc6-generic x86_64
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