Bug 275560 - Support formatting volumes via udisks2
Summary: Support formatting volumes via udisks2
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: frameworks-solid
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Unlisted Binaries Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lukáš Tinkl
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Reported: 2011-06-13 16:20 UTC by Igor Strelnikoff
Modified: 2015-03-12 11:28 UTC (History)
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Description Igor Strelnikoff 2011-06-13 16:20:26 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

For distribution Pardus created a utility for quick format plug-media integration in the Dolphin. It would be nice to include it in the mainline KDE4.

Next, see the links

http://cakirerk.org/index.php/2011/06/quickformat-an-exciting-removable-disk-formatter-for-pardus/

http://blog.gokmengoksel.com/2011/06/quickformat-–-an-exciting-removable-disk-formatter-for-pardus/http://blog.gokmengoksel.com/2011/06/quickformat-–-an-exciting-removable-disk-formatter-for-pardus/

Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 Valentyn Pavliuchenko 2011-06-13 17:05:00 UTC 
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 3 Elias Probst 2013-10-24 20:12:03 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Some screenshots
> http://cakirerk.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/snapshot2.png
> http://cakirerk.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/snapshot6.png
> http://cakirerk.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/snapshot1.png

These screenshots don't load, they should have been included as attachments in this report.

As the screenshots are missing, I can only judge by what I assume this does, so I suggest to better leave this to solid and udisks2 which is there to handle/abstract disk/volume management.

See also the related bug#156534 (Support renaming volumes via udisks2).

So once solid provides the interface to do this, all that would have to be done is to take care of the relatively easy implementation of dealing with solid's interface to support formatting volumes.

udisks2 provides the Format() method to do this: http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/gdbus-org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block.html#gdbus-method-org-freedesktop-UDisks2-Block.Format

So I'm changing the bug description and re-assigning this to solid just as bug#156534.
Comment 4 Jonathan Riddell 2015-03-11 19:11:17 UTC 
This bug is reported on libsolid which is the kdelibs4 version of the solid library.  It is now in maintenance mode.  If you think it should still be fixed in the KDE Frameworks 5 version of solid please move it to or report a bug on frameworks-solid.