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. > -- Henry Zhang JDS Software Engineer, OPG Sun China Engineering & Research Institute Sun Microsystems, Inc. 10/F Chuang Xin Plaza, Tsinghua Science Park Beijing 100084, P.R. China Tel: +86 10 62673866 Fax: +86 10 62780969 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
