Why does the GUI tool for formatting disks have no option to format with ext2 and ext3 filesystems? Why would a tool used for formatting exclude these filesystems? What is the rationale behind this annoyance?
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3It supports ext4. Why do you need an ext2 or ext3 filesystem?jsbillings– jsbillings2019-08-11 01:40:34 +00:00Commented Aug 11, 2019 at 1:40
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You'd have to ask the gnome developers to be sure, but the gnome project has a general policy of reducing complexity (and choice paralysis) by eliminating choices. My guess is that the reasoning is something like this:
Most people don't need (and will never need) to format a disk with ext2 or ext3, so those choices aren't needed in the gnome tool.
Those who do want ancient disk formats for some reason can be presumed to know enough to format it themselves with mkfs, or a more "full-featured" GUI app like gparted.
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BTW, many will argue that Gnome goes too far with that policy, but that's a different issue. A very subjective issue, and the only real answer to it is "Use gnome if it works for you. Use something else if it doesn't". Personally, I use
xfceand do my disk-formatting (and almost everything else) from the command line.cas– cas2019-08-11 03:10:33 +00:00Commented Aug 11, 2019 at 3:10