Re: Removable media management

[Peter Bauer <comicinker gmx de>]

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?).

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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