[Mageia-dev] ProposedFeatureMageia3: Quickformat

Olav Vitters olav at vitters.nl
Thu Jul 5 09:20:50 CEST 2012


On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 08:50:19PM +0200, Stefan Wilhelm wrote:
> Hmmmm, I understand what You mean. My request seems to sound rude. Im
> not sure if Iam the only one who is interested in that tool. When I
> was beginning to work with Linux I was not sure how to format an
> external device. Of course now I know it but for beginners this tool
> would be very helpful and handy.

"Disks" in GNOME 3 can format things. I think by default it just writes
a new table (meaning: Quickformat). I saw a blogpost where a secure
format is added.

IIRC if something is not formatted yet, GNOME should show a popup which
allows you to format it.

-- 
Regards,
Olav


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