{"id":488,"date":"2004-09-14T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnome\/disks-admin-format"},"modified":"2004-09-14T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T19:09:00","slug":"formatting-with-disks-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/2004\/09\/14\/formatting-with-disks-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Formatting . . . with disks-admin!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve just committed some changes into disks-admin, and you can now format partitions  (ext2, ext3, vfat, XFS, ReiserFS, jfs, &#8230;).<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/files\/old\/disks-admin-format.png\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/files\/old\/disks-admin-format-min.png\" alt=\"Disks-admin formatting a partition\" \/><\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td><i>Disks-admin formatting a partition<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I have tried to not use technical words, since  disks-admin is thought to be a user tool, but it&#8217;s in fact a sysadmin tool. Sometimes it&#8217;s  not easy to find the right word in this kind of tools. Tasks like formatting partitions or  creating \/ deleting partitions are more and more needed by the common users.<\/p>\n<p>I want to say that disks-admin is not a  <a href=\"http:\/\/gparted.sourceforge.net\/\">gparted<\/a> clone, since disks-admin is thought to  become a complete user-friendly storage manager (not only disks, but cdroms, floppies, &#8230;)  and not only to manage partitions, but to manage fstab, browse storage hardware, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Disks-admin is still in early development status. The next feature to be implemented  will be the partitions management (create and delete), and I hope that  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advogato.org\/person\/garnacho\/\">garnacho<\/a> can help  me with the fstab stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just committed some changes into disks-admin, and you can now format partitions (ext2, ext3, vfat, XFS, ReiserFS, jfs, &#8230;). Disks-admin formatting a partition I have tried to not use technical words, since disks-admin is thought to be a user &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/2004\/09\/14\/formatting-with-disks-admin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/carlosgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}