even if linux itself would not automatically mount the disks, WHY THE F*CK won't GParted identify what they are? I consider that totally unacceptable. GParted should warn me, else I just go ahead and format them, wiping out gigabytes of data on them.
This is completely unacceptable. If there is a reason I do not want to work on open source it is this exact behavior. There are multiple reasons why gparted won't identify what they are 1. It may be a bug 2. It is a feature that it doesn't have a. It maybe because Microsoft Windows (not winblows) maybe doing something non standard b. It may be because that use case is not very common. People who tend to use Linux can easily fix it. Or maybe they always create a partition table. c. It may be on the developer's todo list, but there are other more pressing things for the developer. d.... Add multiple reasons you can imagine You have the ability to fix it. In my experience if a user reported an issue with a patch, I was very quick to review it, and if it needed minor fixes, work with them to get it in. However a user who is abusing me, and expecting me to listen to their abuse in my free time, no thank you. In fact, if you are the only user asking me for it, it just went to the bottom of my list. If it is that important to you, maybe you should be paying someone to enable that support for you. But this behavior. This is not acceptable, and as a community we should call it out. Dhaval