Please volunteer if you want to help make linux user friendly.
We are starting with 2 use case - it will be expanded
1. Handle ntfs drives easily.
- Debian and Arch did not have any issues with ntfs formatted external drives - Some Ubuntu users need to verify
2. Be able to easily format drives from file managers.
Step 1 Bug filed for nautilus
Requirements
We will need to add 'Format' to the menu. Currently it has 'Mount' or 'Unmount', 'Eject' and 'Safely Remove'. When clicked on format, we will have to offer an option to choose a desired file system, as a first step we should offer file systems available in the system, as an advanced use case we could offer to install new file systems.
Then it should have a tick box for quick format, that should be enabled by default.
Once we get all the options we should run mkfs with given option with given options. We should give visual progress of the process and should find out if mkfs has any apis. Adding APIs to mkfs, if it is not there already can be another project.