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Re: Formatting an SD card

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From	Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid>
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Subject	Re: Formatting an SD card
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In article <dg1ug7Fnte8U3@mid.individual.net>, Huge wrote:
>> A more basic formatting utility -- such as mkfs -- would probably
>> have worked, too.
> 
> Good point. It's been so long since I had to use mkfs, I forgot
> about it.

That seems to me to symptomatic of one of the problems we face with 
Linux. It has some very nice, functional, low-level commandline tools 
(like mkfs) ... but is constantly being criticized for the fact that 
these tools are not "user friendly" because they require commandline 
use.

So, some enterprising soul produces a graphical version ... which then 
suffers feature-creep and becomes an all-singing, all-dancing, 
graphical utility (like disk utility) that do the job of a dozen basic 
commandline tools and comes with its own kitchen sink.

.. which is all very well, but the ability to perform the simple, 
basic, operations without doing the washing up as well has been lost 
along the way, and you can no longer format a drive when the kitchen 
sink is full of dirty inodes and you've run out of detergent.

I almost feel the urge to write a graphical replacement for mkfs that 
does nothing else ... even if it's only a bash script that wraps mkfs 
and uses zenity to give an illusion of GUIness ... but only almost.

(No, not Guinness, that's something else ...)

-- 
Cheers,
 Daniel.

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  Re: Formatting an SD card Chris Whelan <cawhelan@prejudicentlworld.com> - 2016-01-16 21:31 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-16 21:34 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-16 22:54 +0000
  Re: Formatting an SD card Jim Price <d1version@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-16 22:08 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-16 22:55 +0000
  Re: Formatting an SD card Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-01-17 14:04 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-17 16:40 +0000
      Re: Formatting an SD card Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-01-18 12:06 +0000
        Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-18 12:39 +0000
          Re: Formatting an SD card Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-01-20 15:50 +0000
            Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-20 17:16 +0000
  Re: Formatting an SD card The Real Doctor <ian.groups@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-28 17:38 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-28 18:00 +0000

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