[om-general] [OM Cooker] Formatting USB flash drives?
Ben Bullard
benbullard79 at cox.net
Sun Feb 19 15:14:21 EST 2017
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.
>> --
>>
>> Ben Bullard
>> ben79
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>> OpenMandriva-QA Team
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