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Bug 703424 - Formatting a USB stick from Nautilus has no effect
Formatting a USB stick from Nautilus has no effect
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 721278
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Sidebar
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-07-01 21:38 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2014-01-01 13:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.7/3.8


Description Allan Day 2013-07-01 21:38:41 UTC 
Steps:

 * Insert a USB stick
 * Right click on it from the Nautilus sidebar and select Format...
 * Fill in the options dialog and then OK past the confirm dialog

Result:

 * Nautilus switches to ~/
 * The drive isn't formatted

This can be reproduced. I can format the same drive successfully using the main Disks interface.
Comment 1 Jeremy Bicha 2013-09-19 02:03:24 UTC 
I'm reassigning to Nautilus since the code for this feature is in Nautilus' source now.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=a73c8c773
Comment 2 Jeremy Bicha 2013-09-19 02:12:38 UTC 
When I tried this command from the command line with Ubuntu 13.10 Beta (Nautilus 3.8.2 and Disks 3.8.2):

gnome-disks --block-device /dev/sdb --format-device

I got this error message:

Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)

I guess it's probably a gnome-disks bug then after all.
Comment 3 Jakob Unterwurzacher 2013-09-21 17:44:56 UTC 
Confirming on Fedora 19: formatting via Nautilus does nothing.
Calling "gnome-disks --block-device /dev/sdb --format-device" works.
Comment 4 Jakob Unterwurzacher 2013-12-31 15:18:11 UTC 
Just reported bug 721278 against gnome-disks. This bug should be marked as a duplicate (I don't seem to have the permissions to do it).
Comment 5 António Fernandes 2014-01-01 13:47:05 UTC 
As per comment 4:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 721278 ***