GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 633655
UDF not given as a format option
Last modified: 2012-11-14 04:02:48 UTC
The format dialog box does not give UDF as a choice of filesystem to format with. This is the preferred fs to format a rewritable cd/dvd/bd disc with. Originally reported in Ubuntu as bug #573417 on launchpad.net.
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FWIW, I don't think it's very important to support a lot of random filesystems so that's why you see this http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gnome-disks-format-fs-type.png in Disks 3.7 (it's been like since since Disks 3.4). Notably, this dialog *does* allow you to select the "Custom" item in the combobox. This will reveal a "Filesystem" text entry box where you can enter 'udf' (it currently defaults to 'btrfs'). Closing as FIXED.
Choosing custom and typing in 'udf' results in: Error formatting volume: creation of filesystem type udf is not supported (udisks-quark,11), so no, this is not fixed. I would also like to point out that removing the previous filesystem types and replacing them with ext4, or "custom" is a loss of functionality.
(In reply to comment #3) > Choosing custom and typing in 'udf' results in: Error formatting volume: > creation of filesystem type udf is not supported (udisks-quark,11), so no, this > is not fixed. Just fixed this in udisks, see http://cgit.freedesktop.org/udisks/commit/?id=2873b776f8d8cd06645b9d320bb571f589dbba89 This will be in udisks 2.1. Closing as NOTGNOME. > I would also like to point out that removing the previous filesystem types and > replacing them with ext4, or "custom" is a loss of functionality. I don't think any functionality is lost here. Btw, for optical discs, IIRC, this is only useful on the /dev/pktcdvd* devices and udisks does not use those. So I think this change is only useful in the cases where you want to create a UDF filesystem on e.g. a USB stick. If we want to support rewritable CDs/DVDs/BDs, I think more thought than just adding "UDF filesystem" item to the type combobox needs to go into this. For starters, having to run pktsetup(8) manually is likely a non-starter (I think this is the case, at least in Fedora) and the first thing to fix. Work on this is not unappreciated - I don't have a lot of time to work on it and nowadays it's kinda a fringe use case - so if you want this to happen, please open a new bug for it. Thanks!