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 Post subject: Format attached usb drive from adminstration page
PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:17 pm 
Super Tonidoid
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(pretty simple request) .. how about being able to format attached USB drives ..

this would SIGNIFICANTLY HELP those of use who.. say use a Mac and wish to format the Tonido's usb drive to .. say .. ETX3 .. or some other format the Mac's Disk Utility doesn't support. .. the only "common" format supported is FAT32 .. which has its own myriad of "issues" .. i.e. 2gb file limits.. FAT table easily corrupted if there is a power issue or connection problem, etc.. While Tonido supports HFS+ .. its the non-journaled flavor .. again wrought with its own issues.

if your worried about users accidentally formatting their drives.. then throw up loads of scary warning dialogs and maybe prompt for the administration password, a few "ARE YOU REALLY SURE" dialogs .. etc.. should be sufficient to scare off those who aren't sure what they are doing.

I can't tell you how much of a pain in the ass it is to format a drive in EXT3 ..


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