[om-general] [OM Cooker] Formatting USB flash drives?

Colin Close itchka at compuserve.com
Sun Feb 19 16:27:00 EST 2017


Hi Ben,
quick-usb-formatter runs on my box. I get a GUI though I haven't tried 
formatting anything. I recall that it started up automatically in 2014 if you 
had an unformatted usb drive. It's probably not set up to do that for Plasma5.
Best,
Colin


On Sunday, 19 February 2017 14:14:21 GMT Ben Bullard wrote:
> Duh, Ben, it is a KD4 package. Wonder if there is any way we could get a
> Plasma5 version that works?
> 
> Ben Bullard
> ben79
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> OpenMandriva-QA Team
> 
> On 02/19/2017 02:10 PM, Ben Bullard wrote:
> > 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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