# Etcher 1.4.9 always shows partitions

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**Category:** balenaEtcher\
**Created:** [February 11, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-1-4-9-always-shows-partitions/5275 "2019-02-11T14:07:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gerbil66](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/gerbil66/32/1573_2.png) [@Gerbil66](https://forums.balena.io/u/Gerbil66)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-1-4-9-always-shows-partitions/5275/1 "2019-02-11T14:07:55Z")

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Hello, when trying to flash an SD card with the Appimage of Etcher on Linux Mint 17.3, there is no way to overwrite. the UI says, there is an partition table: Drive contains image. But I used dd to delete it.  
What’s going wrong there?  
Kind regards,  
Tom ![step_4](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/balena/original/2X/6/687b0e3dc0004cd933835017b7446cdadfce8815.png)

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**Author:** ![zrzka](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/zrzka/32/1612_2.png) [@zrzka](https://forums.balena.io/u/zrzka)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-1-4-9-always-shows-partitions/5275/2 "2019-02-11T18:27:51Z")

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Hi @Gerbil66,

not really 100% sure that it covers your issue, but can you read the thread here:

- [https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2576](https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2576)

There’s a bug in `drivelist` (bundled with Etcher), which is fixed in [this PR](https://github.com/balena-io-modules/drivelist/pull/312). New Etcher release should fix it.

HTH,  
Robert

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**Author:** ![Gerbil66](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/gerbil66/32/1573_2.png) [@Gerbil66](https://forums.balena.io/u/Gerbil66)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 6:39am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/etcher-1-4-9-always-shows-partitions/5275/3 "2019-02-12T06:39:27Z")

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Hi Robert,  
this could be exactly the same problem. So I’m hoping for a new release, soon (including a working repo for debian). At the moment I could only unxz the file (openhabian) and flash it with dd to the card. My first guess about the problem was, that etcher wasn’t called as root user. But I tried this some minutes ago, without a change.  
Best regards,  
Tom