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Bug 575852 - UI review: unhelpful filesystem choices
UI review: unhelpful filesystem choices
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-disk-utility
Classification: Core
Component: nautilus extension
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-disk-utility-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-03-18 16:13 UTC by Matthias Clasen
Modified: 2009-05-01 02:32 UTC
See Also:
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GNOME version: ---



Description Matthias Clasen 2009-03-18 16:13:20 UTC
from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489514

I'm trying to run n-gdu on a blank DVD+R, and it is offering me a bunch of
filesystem choices, among them some questionable ones, like swap or empty. 
Why would anybody want to do that ?! I don't think those choices are useful at
all in a simple formatting utility.

Also, I think we should preselect the most useful choice of filesystem for a
given type of medium. 

It might be even better to relegate explicit filesystem choice to an "advanced"
section and just have two simple choices, like

(*) Format for data exchange with other operating systems 

( ) Use native Linux filesystem
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2009-05-01 02:32:47 UTC
Fixed in the merged version.