Comment 3 for bug 296160

I can confirm that the 'Format' functionality in usb-creator does not work in many cases. An external program must be used to re-format the disk. Formatting needs to wipe the drive completely (use a different tool) and always format to FAT32 in the same manner. FAT16 should not be accepted for reasons of compatibility and filesystem limitations. usb-creator needs to standardize the way it formats disks. Whatever tool is selected (I currently think it uses mkdosfs) should completely wipe the drive in a standard manner (delete all partitions, create an unformatted filesystem and then format the disk as FAT32). I'm not sure how libparted does it, but I have greater success with gparted then with usb-creator and command line tools.