Dear Liliana I reported it upstream as suggested. Here is the link to track the upstream issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/issues/242
I intend to report here if I get a conclusive response. Thank you! Roman У чт, 2022-03-10 у 09:00 +0100, Liliana Marie Prikler пише: > 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
