Re: Removable media management

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 09:59 +0200, Peter Bauer wrote:
> I already suggested that feature. I also said that it would be nice to
> do some ext2 related administration tasks (fsck and tune2fs). Someone
> told me that would be indeed a feature for a good, complete desktop
> solution.
> 
> After having a look at the e2fsprogs, where all the ext file systems
> tools are developed, and gvfs I came to the conclusion that the gvfs API
> should be extended for that purpose.
> 
> Maybe someone finds an easier solution (having a look at gparted?).

Some work was initially started 

http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/01/29/call-for-developers-gnome-format/
http://www.barisione.org/blog.html?p=65

However it appears both projects were abandoned.

John

> 
> I would like to do some work on it but I'm missing the experience.
> 
> 
> 
> Am Montag, den 26.05.2008, 15:38 +1200 schrieb Jonathan Musther:
> > Is there any plan to introduce removable media management to
> > computer:///?
> > 
> > Currently there's no way (within nautilus) to format removable media,
> > or set the label on FAT/NTFS partitions.
> > 
> > Basic partitioning/formatting (without getting into the complexities
> > of partitioning), would be very helpful for the standard home user,
> > and in the case he/she chooses to format a removable drive with an ext
> > filesystem, the resulting permission issue (namely that only root will
> > have write access) should be resolved for the user.
> > 
> > These two functions are straight forward enough if you're a CLI user,
> > but not for desktop users on Gnome based systems.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
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