Am 30.03.2015 um 02:25 schrieb Dmitry Alexandrov: > On 30/03/15 02:41, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 30.03.2015 um 01:21 schrieb Dmitry Alexandrov: >>> On 30/03/15 01:01, Michael Biebl wrote: >>>> The default policy shipped in Debian allows local desktop users to >>>> mount/umount/format etc removable media. >>> >>> ‘Format’? How? udisksctl(1) does mot provide such a possibility, as far >>> as I see. Also, to my mind, an average desktop user is much less >>> concerned about formating removable drives than *labeling* them. Could >>> it be done without raw access to block devices? >> >> You can, indeed. gnome-disks [1] is a GUI frontend for udisks. >> Among others, it let's change the file system labels. >> I'm sure, other desktop environments provide similar functionality. >> If not, you should poke them. > > OK, thanks, it’s good that desktop environments took up this problem, > but that is (or would be) both too complex and too local solutions. What > about basics: a non-interactive utility like e2label(8) / fatlabel(8), > that would allow one to make re-labelling easy by, for example, > configuring a ‘user action’ for his favourite file manager? > > (By the way, it might worth noting how to re-label partition with > gnome-disks(1) since it’s not quite obvious and does not explained in > ‘GNOME Help’: select a device and select a partition → click a gear icon > next to remove partition button (minus sign icon) → ‘Edit Filesystem’. I > could not manage to do it with keyboard.)
At least mounting/unmount/formatting/writing of ISO-Images are all integrated nicely into nautilus. It's true, that relabelling is not and that you need to resort to gnome-disks here. But that's a rather special case imho. As for using the command line tools: No-one prevents you from using those e.g. using sudo or pkexec. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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