Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Aug 27 04:24:21 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 20:07 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Hey, look here
> http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/disk-format.html.en
>  
> "If you have a removable disk like a USB memory stick or an external
> hard disk, you may wish to completely remove all of the files you have
> on there. You can do this by formatting the disk - this deletes all of
> the files on the disk and leaves it empty."
>  
> Wow, plain English. No misconceptions about what formatting means. :)

To be pedantic, that's a complete misconception about what "formatting"
means...

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