2010/5/10 Praveen A <[email protected]>: > 1. Handle ntfs drives easily.
I had no issues with accessing the ntfs formatted drive. I could write to it without entering any passwords. I run Debian, but we should find out why it is not possible in Ubuntu. > 2. Format drives with a right click from file manager. I had to run mkfs.ntfs on the drive from command line. Now I think this should really be an option from nautilus. The first step to get this fixed is to tell the developers the current situation can be made easier. So I reported this bug to nautilus https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618272 We will see if they respond, but meanwhile how about fixing this ourselves? Any volunteers to work on this project? We will need to add 'Format' to the menu. Currently it has 'Mount' or 'Unmount', 'Eject' and 'Safely Remove'. When clicked on format, we will have to offer an option to choose a desired file system, as a first step we should offer file systems available in the system, as an advanced use case we could offer to install new file systems. Then it should have a tick box for quick format, that should be enabled by default. Once we get all the options we should run mkfs with given option with given options. We should give visual progress of the process and should find out if mkfs has any apis. Adding APIs to mkfs, if it is not there already can be another project. I hope some of you are interested to fix this. -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
