Re: Problem on gnome-disks on f41

2024-12-04 Thread Stephen Morris
On 5/12/24 05:24, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Whenever I try to mount some additional partitions on the system drives the message box comes up saying that "Error mounting filesystem 'Not authorized to perform operation (udisks-error-quark, 4)'". Previously a box would open allowing a passwo

Problem on gnome-disks on f41

2024-12-04 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Whenever I try to mount some additional partitions on the system drives the message box comes up saying that "Error mounting filesystem 'Not authorized to perform operation (udisks-error-quark, 4)'". Previously a box would open allowing a password to be entered. How can the earlier behavior be

gnome-disks

2024-02-27 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Attaching a drive with gnome-disks used to use the accessing user. It now brings up a drop down menu of the list of all the users in /home. Is there a configuration to tell it to use the active user? -- ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-17 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > Hey Richard, > > Just keep in mind that depends on your usage the disk might get bad > sectors. > As much as many including me would like to not have them happen they do > happen for any HDD vendor! > Some things that affect DISK lifespan

Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-16 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey Richard, Just keep in mind that depends on your usage the disk might get bad sectors. As much as many including me would like to not have them happen they do happen for any HDD vendor! Some things that affect DISK lifespan: - enterprise\server level usage on a desktop disk - high times of o

Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 21:00 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:02 PM, SternData a.com> > wrote: > > > I just got one of these to replace one that was dropping sectors: > > > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005T3GRN2?psc=1&redirect=true&ref > > _=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00

Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-15 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:02 PM, SternData wrote: > I just got one of these to replace one that was dropping sectors: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005T3GRN2?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00 Yeah, I shopped around a bit and decided to give a referb with 1 year warranty

Re: gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-15 Thread SternData
On 02/15/2016 04:47 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > Um I'm not sure what the threshold should be for this drive (2TB) > but I would think that having over 7000 bad sectors it would not be > considered OK. > > In either case I plan on replacing the drive as soon as funds allow. > > Thanks, > Richard

gnome-disks: Disk is OK, 7080 bad sectors (31° C / 88° F)

2016-02-15 Thread Richard Shaw
Um I'm not sure what the threshold should be for this drive (2TB) but I would think that having over 7000 bad sectors it would not be considered OK. In either case I plan on replacing the drive as soon as funds allow. Thanks, Richard -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: Is gnome-disks really incapable of dealing with a blank drive?

2013-03-15 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:22:47PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > By golly that works (since I hadn't put anything on the disk yet, > I wiped it so I could try again). It is unfortunate that it uses > the same gear icon as the one below the picture in the middle of the > screen yet does complete diffe

Re: Is gnome-disks really incapable of dealing with a blank drive?

2013-03-15 Thread Junk
On 14 Mar 2013, at 23:22, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:52:37 -0500 > Michael Cronenworth wrote: > >> At the top right of the program (to the right of your hard drive name) >> there is a button with two gears. Click on "Format Disk..." to partition. > > By golly that works (since

Re: Is gnome-disks really incapable of dealing with a blank drive?

2013-03-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:52:37 -0500 Michael Cronenworth wrote: > At the top right of the program (to the right of your hard drive name) > there is a button with two gears. Click on "Format Disk..." to partition. By golly that works (since I hadn't put anything on the disk yet, I wiped it so I coul

Re: Is gnome-disks really incapable of dealing with a blank drive?

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Cronenworth
On 03/14/2013 07:02 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > Am I missing something, or is the gnome-disks utility > really this useless? At the top right of the program (to the right of your hard drive name) there is a button with two gears. Click on "Format Disk..." to partition. -- users ma

Is gnome-disks really incapable of dealing with a blank drive?

2013-03-14 Thread Tom Horsley
I popped in my new 4TB drive yesterday and tried to use gnome-disks to create a giant ext4 partition. I couldn't find any option anywhere to create partitions, I only found options to format, so I figured that would implicitly create the partitions. But no, it formatted /dev/sdc as an