MODICIA Format Drive

MODICIA Format Drive is a modern utility designed for high-performance bootable USB creation and disk image management. Built for creators and system administrators, it delivers efficient and reliable workflow controls for formatting drives and writing ISO images.

Developed by Marco M. Mariani for MODICIA O.S., MODICIA Format Drive is released under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) combined with the attribution terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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Features

• Modern UI & High Performance: Clean and responsive Python 3 / GTK3 interface optimized for desktop environments.
• Smart USB Detection: Automatically detects removable USB drives via lsblk while intelligently safeguarding system disks.
• Integrated Formatting: Securely manages drive formatting with multiple file system options (FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, ext4) via mintstick.
• Multilingual Support: Built-in i18n support with automatic system locale detection (English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese).
• Open Source Licensing: Released under dual terms (GPLv3 + CC BY 4.0) ensuring complete freedom and transparent attribution.

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Requirements

• Python: 3.x
• Libraries: python3-gi, python3-gi-cairo
• Dependencies: mintstick (for formatting operations)

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Installation (.deb package)

To install MODICIA Format Drive on Debian, Ubuntu, MODICIA O.S., or compatible distributions, download the .deb package and run:

```bash sudo dpkg -i MODICIA Format Drive_x.x-x_amd64.deb sudo apt-get install -f # To resolve any missing dependencies if necessary