GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 343170
disks-admin shows non physical disks
Last modified: 2008-01-07 23:58:40 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/40578 "disks-admin should only list physical devices. Instead it also shows unionfs, tmpfs, etc. "disks". I suggest filtering out devices whose name doesn't start with "/dev/". Tested in Dapper Beta Live CD. ... > Thanks for your bug. Could you make a screenshot of the issue? Could you also run "mount" and copy that to a comment? ... With a Dapper Flight-7 LiveCD running on my laptop (which has 1 hd and 1 dvd-reader): # cat /etc/fstab unionfs / unionfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 # mount unionfs on / type unionfs (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.15-21-386/volatile type tmpfs (rw) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) # ls /dev/{s,h,f}d? /dev/fd0 /dev/hda /dev/hdc ... http://librarian.launchpad.net/2720415/2-hd_unionfs.png Looking at /etc/fstab, I think it is the root partition. It shouldn't be listed. The partition list on the second tab is empty. ... http://librarian.launchpad.net/2720431/3-hd_tmpfs.png Looking at /etc/fstab, I think it is /tmp. It shouldn't be listed. The partition list on the second tab is empty. ..."
Mass closing of remaining disks-admin and boot-admin bugs, sorry for the spam. Both tools are bitrotting, and no development is likely to happen on them.