Etcher warning

[Moltke]

Thanks for the replys.  LLOS 5 is on the drive , but the rest of the drive appears to be unreadable/writable at this time.  I am going to use it to install the OS and then try to return it to its original state.  I thought it would have been nice of Etcher to give a warning that the drive would be over written.  That was the purpose of my post.

I plan to create a small partition next to the Home partition.  There I am going to backup my current Home folder and put Timeshift files there.  I am currently using LLOS 18.04 and have done some customization's and hope to get as many of these back as possible with the new install as possible by replacing the new files with the old ones.  Hopefully 4 GB of space will be enough for the backup area.

I will probably take a look at Ventoy after this is done.

Well, every tool to write/burn .iso files to USB devices does just the same, most do warning but others like etcher don't, they think users should know what they're doing; if you're about to write/burn an .iso file to a USB keep in mind any data on it will be lost, since the process will completely reformat it. I filed a request of this feature few months ago on their github page https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/3049 but looks like they don't care and users should be more careful, which I too think they should but still ... such a warning will be useful.