formatting/partitioning methods in HAL

[Danny Kukawka]

On Sunday 15 January 2006 06:48, Christopher Santero wrote:
> I'm interested in implementing the formatting and parititioning
> methods David talks about in this Gnome bug:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309067
>
[...]
> Does that sound correct, and am I missing anything?

I see the big problem of security and permissions to format a volume. For a 
CD/DVD or a floppy (and maybe also a USB-Stick, but not complete sure) we 
could allow the user to format a volume, but for a harddisk? 

I don't think so - for this you should need root-user rights. A user should 
not be able to reformat (and delete data) a volume if he not own _all_ files 
and dirs on the volume (and IMO the same for a USB-disk). IMO any other 
solution would be never acceptable.

Cheers,

Danny