Re: I encountered a horrible experience with Nautilus and GParted

2008-08-25 Thread Phillip Susi
Peteris Krisjanis wrote: Even better, hal just needs to know which devices are actually formatted atm, and spread this info to other apps so they don't try to access this device. I think it needs to take place at a lower level than hal; either in the kernel or udevd. The partitioners need

I encountered a horrible experience with Nautilus and GParted

2008-08-21 Thread Dylan McCall
Today I needed to reorganize the partitions on a MicroSD card. I found that the best solution was GParted, so pulled that open to reformat the thing. I needed to unmount its two partitions first (a FAT32 and an ext3). Okay... did that through GParted since the option was there. NOTHING Happened;

Re: I encountered a horrible experience with Nautilus and GParted

2008-08-21 Thread William Grant
Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Dylan McCall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone else able to reproduce this? Yes, I hate it. It happens all the time when I use GParted on the live cd to partition because the partitioner in the installer has a terrible interface.

Re: I encountered a horrible experience with Nautilus and GParted

2008-08-21 Thread Nergar
Not sure but I think stopping hald would ugly-fix this. hal daemon is what nautilus uses to find out about new plugged devices. Maybe gparted could stop the daemon when it starts and could start it back when you close it. Well at least AFAIK. On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 07:28 +1000, William Grant