GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 605085
creating a filesystems gives no progress, remaining time
Last modified: 2012-11-12 21:17:02 UTC
When creating a filesystem, palimpsest seems to give no indication of progress or remaining time. There is a spinning wheel that keeps rotation, which indicates it has not crashed, but there is no way for the user to know how far it has reached, or how long it will still take. In my specific case, I am creating an ext4 filesystem on an encrypted partition on a terabyte-sized USB hard drive. I expect it to take a long time, but I would like to know if I should wait for a few more minutes or go sleep. mke2fs does provide progress indication.
All the interfaces for this are in place, see http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gnome-disks-long-running-operations.png http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/gdbus-org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Job.html what is needed is "just" to hook up udisks to use it. So closing NOTGNOME. Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. However, this application does not track its bugs in the GNOME Bugzilla. We kindly ask you to report the bug to the application authors. For a selective list of other bug tracking systems please consult http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/TriageGuide/NonGnome. If the affected third party application has a bug tracking system you should investigate whether a bug for the reported issue is already filed in this system. If it has not been filed yet please do so. Also ensure that both bug reports contain a link to each other. Thanks in advance!