[OM Cooker] [om-general] 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.
>> -- 
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