Labelling and formatting of partitions
We propose a way or tool to format partitions with various file systems, including LUKS encryption support.
At the moment there is no GUI tool to change the label of a Linux file system, and no tool at all to change the label of a VFAT partition. We propose the design of the necessary backend support into UI agnostic infrastructure (hal) and the user interface integration into Gnome.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- Martin Pitt
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Martin Pitt
- Definition:
- Superseded
- Series goal:
- Accepted for hardy
- Implementation:
- Started
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Martin Pitt
- Completed by
- Martin Pitt
Whiteboard
pitti, 2007-11-13: Spec ready for review now, comments appreciated.
RFC sent to upstream, too: http://
pitti, 2007-11-16: upstream generally agrees to the concept, setting to pendingapproval
pitti, 2008-02-13: fsck usplash integration is in hardy now, except for checkroot.sh (which breaks with non-ext3, investigation in progress)
pitti, 2008-02-19: fsck usplash integration for checkroot.sh added, too.
pitti, 2008-12-15: renaming and creation of partitions is handled by devicekit-disks in the future, thus this is obsolete.
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.