Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: usb-creator
I think the summary is relatively self-explanatory.
I was attempting to create an installer on a USB flash drive with on a
Karmic machine with several pieces of USB media attached, including
(apparently unwisely) my backup drive, where I was busily moving data I
didn't want to lose when I reinstalled the machine from scratch.
I picked the wrong /dev/sd?, got no warnings, and am now trying to
recover the disk from a backup superblock.
usb-creator-gtk needs to make some major usability changes:
* Stop listing /dev/sd[a-z][1-9] devices alongside /dev/sd[a-z] ones. It's a
single piece of media, for most purposes. Pick one.
* Identify the devices as best as possible. If Nautilus can show spiffy SD and
CF and generic disk icons, so can usb-creator-gtk.
* At an absolute minimum, displaying the current volume label (if there is one)
would be enormously helpful.
* Issue at least one generic warning before performing any destructive
operations.
* Issue a second warning for ext[2-4] and other Linux filesystems. Possibly a
second warning for any non-WinDOS filesystems.
* Either refuse to operate on a mounted filesystem, or warn that it's mounted,
and offer to unmount it.
* Stop bypassing back-end tools' refusal to operate on mounted filesystems
until usb-creator-gtk has its own set.
mkdosfs (I'm guessing that was what was in operation) has completely
gutted the drive. There's nothing left whatever. I did actually have
some important information in there, including passwords and package
tracking numbers and things.
** Affects: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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usb-creator operates on mounted filesystems, does not display confirmation
dialogs, issue warnings about data loss
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445810
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