[CentOS] Idiot-proof method to format a flash drive

[John R Pierce]

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


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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz