Feature : Add an option to prevent reformatting the USB drive
sebma opened this issue · comments
Hi,
Can you add an option to prevent reformatting the USB drive ?
I'm sorry, but, what do you mean by this? In my opinion it is always better to reformat the drive to ensure everything runs OK.
Why erase all the data on the pen-drive every time ?
I'd like to have an option that does the job without re-formatting the pen-drive.
The mount or the df -T command tells us in what filesystem the pen drive is already formatted with.
And even if the pen-drive could not be mounted, the user just as to do an fsck before running bootify
Too much hassle, a lot of checks to do. Don't you think?
You don't have to add any checks, maybe just precise in your README.md that :
UEFI needs a FAT32 formated pen-drive and boot mode does not care if FAT32 or NTFS.
But if you really want to do the checks, you can do that (but I think you already know how to do it) :
If $SCH = uefi => df -T | grep "${DEV}1" | egrep "vfat|fat32" (you can replace df -T by mount if df -T is not portable enough)
I will think about this over.