[FEATURE]: Ignore/Protect Lock Drive

[nwgat]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

to save people from accidentally wiping their external ssd/hdd etc
it would be useful to have a ignore or protect lock disk feature

Describe the solution you would like to see implemented

something like a right click to protect lock the drive

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

Version

1.9.2 (Default)

[lurch]

There have been similar requests before (both here and also on the Etcher issues tracker)... the problem becomes that there's no easy way to uniquely identify a removable drive. And even if this "protection" feature were possible, and you rely on it to not overwrite important data, it still doesn't help if you buy a new drive and copy all your data to it and then forget to "protect" it.

It's perhaps a bit of a glib answer, but the safest / simplest / most reliable way is to simply be very careful which drive you select when using Raspberry Pi Imager.
"With great power comes great responsibility" 😉