#781495 udisksctl lacks commands for labelling and formatting

Package:
udisks2
Source:
udisks2
Description:
D-Bus service to access and manipulate storage devices
Submitter:
Dmitry Alexandrov
Date:
2015-03-30 03:09:09 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#781495#5
Date:
2015-03-30 03:00:47 UTC
From:
To:
While UDisks implements functions for labelling [0] and formatting [1]
partitions and drives and, judging by gnome-disks(1), they are pretty
working, udisksctl(1) does not provide a user interface for them.

Not being something important by itself, in a couple with revoking raw
access to removable block devices from users (bug #751892 [2]) this lack
of feature presents a regression in Jessie for a user that wants
re-label or re-format an USB-drive using a non-interactive utility:
using e2label(8) / fatlabel(8) / mkfs(8) requires superuser rights now.

[0]:
http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/UDisksFilesystem.html#udisks-filesystem-call-set-label
[1]:
http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/UDisksBlock.html#udisks-block-call-format
[2]: https://bugs.debian.org/751892

--- Package information. ---
Depends                       (Version) | Installed
=======================================-+-==============
libacl1                   (>= 2.2.51-8) | 2.2.52-2
libatasmart4                  (>= 0.13) | 0.19-3
libc6                          (>= 2.7) |
libglib2.0-0               (>= 2.31.18) |
libgudev-1.0-0                 (>= 165) |
libpolkit-agent-1-0           (>= 0.99) |
libpolkit-gobject-1-0        (>= 0.101) |
libudisks2-0                (>= 2.0.91) |
udev                                    |
dbus                                    |
parted                                  |


Recommends       (Version) | Installed
==========================-+-===========
policykit-1                | 0.105-8
dosfstools                 | 3.0.27-1
ntfs-3g                    | 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1
eject                      | 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13.1
gdisk                      | 0.8.10-2


Suggests            (Version) | Installed
=============================-+-===========
xfsprogs                      |
reiserfsprogs                 |
exfat-utils                   | 1.1.0-2
btrfs-tools                   | 3.17-1.1
mdadm                         |
cryptsetup-bin                | 2:1.6.6-5
#781495#10
Date:
2015-03-30 03:06:50 UTC
From:
To:
Am 30.03.2015 um 05:00 schrieb Dmitry Alexandrov:

Hi Dmitry,

since this a feature request and not a Debian specific integration
issue, it would be great if you can file this bug report upstream and
report back with the bug number.

It's unlikely that we develop such features downstream.

Thanks,
Michael