Hi Roman, Am Mittwoch, dem 09.03.2022 um 02:27 +0200 schrieb Roman Riabenko: > 2. GNOME Disks utility ignored the dosfstools package which I installed > in my user profile. For comparison, this applies to ntfs-3g too. In > relation to ntfs-3g with UDisks this seems to be expected behavior, but > it seemed to me as a bug at first: > https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Desktop-Services.html#index-udisks_002dservice > > I do not know what is necessary to make GNOME Disk utility recognize > the tools in the user profile and I am not sure it is necessary. It > just seemed against the spirit of guix that the user is forced to > reconfigure the system. GNOME Disks inherits UDisks' limitations, as it uses it under the hood. With that in mind...
> 1. The FAT option was not grayed out in the formatting dialog. For > comparison, the NTFS option was grayed out until I added ntfs-3g to > the system profile too. May be GNOME Disks expects mkfs.vfat to be > present, so it does not check whether it is present like it does for > other file systems. > > So, it would be great for GNOME Disks to check whether mkfs.vfat is > available before proceeding like it does for other filesystems. You should probably report this one upstream. A fix would be relatively simple to write, see [1] for the relevant line making the Windows button insensitive. The procedure "gdu_utils_is_ntfs_available" spans only a few lines of code and could easily be adapted to check for vfat instead. Cheers [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/blob/40.2/src/disks/gducreatefilesystempage.c#L209
