On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:51, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With computing, deluding yourself that something actually means
> something else is an action that will come back to haunt you. Lying to
> other people is an action that may well cause someone serious problems.
Twisting the discussion to what words should mean is a futile exercise.
Formatting a flash drive means what the gnome page says. That is what
people want o do when they select "format" on any OS where the option
is labeled as such (amigaOS, Windows, OS/2).
Let's do a poll on any street about what formatting a removable drive
means, in common usage of the expression.
Nobody talked about secure-erasing files to prevent recovery by
forensic means or undelete ("unformat") utilities, that issue was
introduced into the discussion by nitpickers on this thread, who
started arguments about what low-lever formating is, or what the
format word should mean.
FC
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