[OM Cooker] Formatting USB flash drives?

Ben Bullard benbullard79 at cox.net
Sun Feb 19 15:10:54 EST 2017


It's called 'quick-usb-formatter' and is apparently installed in Lx 3 by 
default. But it doesn't work. Wonder if it is an old KDE4 package? Or do 
we need a bug report?

Ben Bullard
ben79
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OpenMandriva-QA Team

On 02/19/2017 01:22 PM, Ben Bullard wrote:
>
> What would be the easiest way for a non tech savvy OpenMandriva user 
> to format USB flash drives in OM Lx 3? I'm asking this in order to, I 
> hope, better help such users on our forum.
>
> Do we have a handy GUI utility for this like some Linux distros (and 
> Windows) have? I've been using KDE Partition Manager but non tech 
> savvy users may find that to be "scary" or otherwise intimidating. It 
> would seem handy if ROSA image writer had this ability but it doesn't 
> nor does it refer user to an application that can format an 
> unformatted flash drive. That seems oddly not customer focused for the 
> ROSA engineers as at one time they rather emphasized customer focus 
> (IMHO).
>
> Also I am aware that this is easily done with command line or 
> diskdrake as well just wonder what is considered easiest for 
> non-tech-savvy users.
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> Ben Bullard
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