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Show friendly name for removable drive in main window

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Etcher version: beta19
Operating system and architecture: all of the above

It makes me really nervous flashing a drive when it just says /dev/sdc. I always double check by clicking “change”, which lists slightly more drive information or I use another application to confirm that the drive is really what I think it is. It would be nice to do this with fewer clicks. I would rather see the “friendly” name instead of the path in the main window (and maybe show the path on hover).

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:16 (12 by maintainers)

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jviotticommented, Mar 16, 2017

The size is probably more important. I think the name + size is the best combination.

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lurchcommented, Mar 21, 2017

Can we keep this open until the tooltip part gets added?

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