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. -- Emmanuele Bassi, E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
