Re: On format of media in Nautilus

[Henry Zhang <Hua Zhang Sun COM>]

Hi Emmanuele,

So seems HAL can't totally support us to implement format for 
all-purpose format.

I take a quick look at Gparted, I find there is a format menu, so seems 
this tool support format, also I find in Suse 10, there is a tool named 
partitionar, which also have functionality to format, seems we can use 
them to format...(I have not look into them at them moment).


Thanks,
Henry

Emmanuele Bassi 写道:
> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 18:12 +0800, Henry Zhang wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I noticed in Nautilus there is a format for removable media, but seems 
> > this function is only for floppy disk?
>
> it's really calling gfloppy (from gnome-utils); I'm the gnome-utils
> maintainer and I am already doing some coordination between a couple of
> efforts of creating an all-purpose media formatter.
>
> > If so, it there any tool used for format the removable media, for 
> > example USB memory, flash card. etc?
>
> there's an open bug to make gfloppy work with all the removable media
> using HAL:
>
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309067
>
> unfortunately, HAL doesn't support media formatting abstractions, so you
> end up calling external programs or libraries like gparted - which might
> require a privilege escalation, something that HAL (and PolicyKit) would
> spare us to do (see comment #3 from davidz on the bug above).
>
> in short: making an all-purpose formatter is not that easy as it sounds
> and needs some pieces to be in place before doing it.
>
> ciao,
>  Emmanuele.

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