Hello The upstream implemented the check for vfat and closed the issue. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-disk-utility/-/commit/15462f9c87c08c5af77a31993c1d87cb34d04861
(It is not included in Disks version 42.0, so I haven't tested it yet.) Roman У нд, 2022-03-13 у 18:56 +0200, Roman Riabenko пише: > 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 >
