In addition to thunar providing disk level options like eject and unmount in the context menu, it would be useful to also give the option to format a partition. 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]` This functionality is available in Nemo, Nautilus, Finder, Windows Explorer.
I'm not sure that's a feature I would want. At least for me, formatting is something I don't do very often, so I don't feel like it's too much of an inconvenience to use a separate program. However, maybe other people use removable media more often than I do, and if all of those other programs have this, then maybe it's something we should consider.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10337 ***