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[Chris Perry <clissold345@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@Gunnar. Yes I'll make a note to check what other pages need to be
changed (presumably you mean other pages that describe how to use the
Disks application?). I think it's straightforward to revise disk-
format.html.

On a related point: it seems to me that it will be quite common for
users to want to "reuse" a removable disk - that's what I wanted to do
which led me to discover that disk-format.html was out of date - (the
steps would be something like this: format it, create a partition, and
mount the partition). Can I create a new (short) page to describe this?
It can be linked to from disk.html?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651360

Title:
  Formatting a removable disk

Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  The GUI for the Disks application must have been changed in the last
  few years so disk-format.html needs to be revised. The Disks
  application now seems to hide as many of the technical details as it
  can (which in theory I think is a good idea).

  I have a problem in that when I format a USB flash drive using Disks
  (Ubuntu 16.04) - no error is reported during formatting - but Ubuntu
  then doesn't recognise the drive. When I create a partition and format
  it using Gparted it works fine. Ive only tried this with one USB flash
  drive, so the problem may be specific to that drive (or not). If Disks
  doesn't work correctly, we can document how to format a removable disk
  by using Gparted?

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