On 11/30/2015 1:39 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > Whenever I format a flash drive I'm always terrified that I'm going to fat-finger something in the terminal and accidentally blow away a partition on one of my hard drives.*shudder* > > Is gparted the best gui to handle this task? Or is there something better? I'd really prefer something more limited that just allows me to select whatever it sees as a removable drive and disallows any screwin' about with the other drives. > > "Format the USB connected drive?". > "Choose format (ext4, ext3, fat32)". > "Blammo." nearly all disks are removable... AHCI sata drives can be hotplugged, etc. I've not used gparted, just command line parted, I'm pretty sure it won't let you mangle a disk thats got mounted partitions -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz