I think it would very useful to implement the option of formating a pendrive from the right click mouse menu, where you only can now mount or unmount it. I don´t know if the best would be to make it throught a plugin or in thunar directly, but the option to format your usb to ext4, ntfs, fat32, ... directly like in windows an other desktop managers would be great. Thanks,
actually I think that this need to be used on removable non cd-rom media because that is a best description than 'pendrive' anyway I try to write a custom action, but I fail because that not work on that part of the panel, (or I not know how make it work). so I agree that can by a good option
An alternative would be searching for common graphical disk management utilities like gnome-disks or gparted and, if found, display right-click menu entries to access the device from these utilities. For example gnome-disks can be told to directly jump to specified drive properties using '--block-device DEVICE', or display the format dialog with '--block-device DEVICE --format-device'. Gparted can also be told to show a specific drive with 'gparted DEVICE' XFCE has no disk utility and so I think it would be good to delegate this feature to existing tools, if they are installed. gnome-disks has very few dependencies, many features, and it works well. https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/gnome-disk-utility/gnome-disks.1.en.html
I would support the proposal to scan for available disk mangment tools. A proper solution could be an additional thunar-plugin which does so. Or, maybe even better, this service could be added thunar-volman.
*** Bug 16546 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
From my duplicate bug 16546. The context menu entry would try to execute one of these commands, based on the availability of the app in this order. `gnome-disks --block-device [device] --format-device` `mintstick -m format -u [device]` `gparted [device]`
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