Bug 1467101

Summary:	[rfe] be suspicious of users asking to overwrite large media
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Murphy <bugzilla>
Component:	mediawriter	Assignee:	Jan Grulich <jgrulich>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Chris Murphy 2017-07-02 20:36:38 UTC

Description of problem:

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/107296/what-type-of-format-does-fedora-media-writer-do/

Gist is the user pointed FMW to their NTFS formatted 2TB USB external hard disk drive and nuked it from orbit. Obviously it's user error, but FMW could correctly be a bit fussy and mother hen when the user points to a 2TB driver. In fact it's likely not anything they'd want to use for installing Fedora if it's bigger than 128G but... 

I imagine the message is something like:

The selected drive is 2TB, which is suspiciously large for install media. Are you certain you want all data destroyed on this drive?

Comment 1 Villy Kruse 2017-07-03 06:13:06 UTC

Does mediawriter check if one or more of the file systems on the USB device is mounted before overwriting everything?

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2024-10-30 10:22:52 UTC

FEDORA-2024-9ead773f2c (mediawriter-5.1.90-1.fc40) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 40.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-9ead773f2c

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2024-10-30 10:22:53 UTC

FEDORA-2024-45bba51f00 (mediawriter-5.1.90-1.fc39) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 39.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-45bba51f00

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2024-10-31 02:33:06 UTC

FEDORA-2024-45bba51f00 has been pushed to the Fedora 39 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-45bba51f00`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-45bba51f00

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2024-10-31 03:08:23 UTC

FEDORA-2024-9ead773f2c has been pushed to the Fedora 40 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-9ead773f2c`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-9ead773f2c

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2024-10-31 03:41:19 UTC

FEDORA-2024-46b968d69c has been pushed to the Fedora 41 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-46b968d69c`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-46b968d69c

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2024-11-06 03:52:19 UTC

FEDORA-2024-46b968d69c (mediawriter-5.1.90-1.fc41) has been pushed to the Fedora 41 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2024-11-08 01:20:47 UTC

FEDORA-2024-45bba51f00 (mediawriter-5.1.90-1.fc39) has been pushed to the Fedora 39 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2024-11-08 04:09:08 UTC

FEDORA-2024-9ead773f2c (mediawriter-5.1.90-1.fc40) has been pushed to the Fedora 40 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.