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Confirm when writing to a disk that is not an SD card #528

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adamvleggett opened this issue Dec 27, 2022 · 1 comment
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Confirm when writing to a disk that is not an SD card #528

adamvleggett opened this issue Dec 27, 2022 · 1 comment

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@adamvleggett
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adamvleggett commented Dec 27, 2022 •
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The Pi Imager overwrote a 2TB hard drive that contains important data because the less-than-descriptive label for the drive didn't make it obvious to me that that is what I was about to do. A quick Google search shows I am not the only person this has happened to.

It seems like this (writing to a device that is not an SD card or way outside the expected size range) would be a good situation for extra confirmation, informing the user that this is likely not what they wanted to do and is dangerous.
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lurch commented Dec 30, 2022

See also #439 for more discussion around this.

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