On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 18:55, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No another meaningless option that wouldn't actually do anything. > > If you want to blank a drive into a new file system format you just need > to be sure to clean up any confusing superblocks and get the type right. > For the same fs you will hit the metadata anyway. > > And if you want to blank a disk you need to issue a security erase > command, not just overwrite the data. The latter does not do what you > would always want on modern storage systems, particularly flash. > > Alan Yes "blank a drive" aka "formatting" it. With the same file system it previously had. (fat32). Doesn´t need to be a "full format", a "quick format" would do. Let´s please not get into semantics here. If you say "reformat a removable drive" everybody knows what it means. It is not repartitioning, it is not low-level formating, it is not "secure" erasing all data so that no files can be recovered, it´s just, well, formatting... erasing its contents... like a "format e: /q" does in windows. Notice how all posts, are titled "formatting" http://linuxwave.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-to-format-your-flash-drive.html Even while in the end the tutorials tell to use mkfs... So, I maintain my original comment... I think it should be possible from the Gnome GUI to right click and select an option to "format" the drive (who partitions a thumb drive?? 99.9999% are used in a single-partition mode) Hey, look here http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/disk-format.html.en "If you have a removable disk like a USB memory stick or an external hard disk, you may wish to completely remove all of the files you have on there. You can do this by formatting the disk - this deletes all of the files on the disk and leaves it empty." Wow, plain English. No misconceptions about what formatting means. :) So let me rephrase my original post: on removable drives, shouldn´t there be a "Format" option (or "wipe" if you wish) that invokes ´disk utility´ with the right params to beggin formatting it?. FC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
