Can't (re)format a USB disk from the GUI

[Torrey Hoffman]

I just bought a 500GB external USB / eSATA drive. For my "convenience" the manufacturer preformatted it as NTFS.

I plugged it into my Ubuntu Feisty box and it immediately appeared on the desktop. I'm impressed that NTFS is supported and recognized, that's good.

However there are two bugs here.

1. There is no messaging indicating that the drive is formatted for Windows, and that will affect how well it works under Linux, and that I may want to reformat it for Linux for better performance and features. (extended attributes, etc...)

2. I want to reformat the drive as ext3. I know how to do this from the command prompt, but my non-Linux-expert family members would not. I can't find any Gnome tool for this.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still and issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Torrey Hoffman (thoffman)]

If it hasn't been fixed, it is still an issue.
Since reporting I have upgraded to the next Ubuntu release, and I will
retest there and confirm.

On Dec 4, 2007 2:28 PM, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still and issue
> for you? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray (brian-murray)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Can't (re)format a USB disk from the GUI
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102523
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[trollord (trollenlord)]

Gvfs+nautilus could offer it for all removables, via right click context menu...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.