[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#781495: Bug#781495: udisksctl lacks commands for labelling and formatting

[Michael Biebl]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tags -1 upstream

Am 30.03.2015 um 05:00 schrieb Dmitry Alexandrov:
> Package: udisks2
> Version: 2.1.3-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> While UDisks implements functions for labelling [0] and formatting [1]
> partitions and drives and, judging by gnome-disks(1), they are pretty
> working, udisksctl(1) does not provide a user interface for them.
> 
> Not being something important by itself, in a couple with revoking raw
> access to removable block devices from users (bug #751892 [2]) this lack
> of feature presents a regression in Jessie for a user that wants
> re-label or re-format an USB-drive using a non-interactive utility:
> using e2label(8) / fatlabel(8) / mkfs(8) requires superuser rights now.
> 

Hi Dmitry,

since this a feature request and not a Debian specific integration
issue, it would be great if you can file this bug report upstream and
report back with the bug number.

It's unlikely that we develop such features downstream.

Thanks,
Michael


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