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Bug 644602 - Partitions mounted via fstab are not displayed in "Devices" of nautilus
Partitions mounted via fstab are not displayed in "Devices" of nautilus
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Sidebar
2.91.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-03-13 00:04 UTC by cxcxcxcx
Modified: 2011-03-21 23:25 UTC
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Description cxcxcxcx 2011-03-13 00:04:01 UTC
In order to auto-mount some partitions, I put some of my partitions in /etc/fstab. But I can't access these volumes directly using "Places" or "Devices", I have to go to their paths directly.

This is really inconvenient. I don't why nautilus distinguish auto-mounted partitions and manually mounted partitions. It seems this behavior cannot be changed by changing configuration files.

Other file managers, like Dolphin, do show auto-mounted partitions in the device list.
Comment 1 Stefano Teso 2011-03-14 09:21:36 UTC
Thank you for your bug report. What version of nautilus (and gvfs) are you using?
Comment 2 cxcxcxcx 2011-03-16 04:02:40 UTC
I have been suffering from this problem for years, so I think all recent version are affected. The current version I'm using is nautilus 2.91.91 and gvfs 1.7.2-2
Comment 3 Stefano Teso 2011-03-16 09:07:58 UTC
Okay, thanks for the prompt answer. Updating the version field accordingly.
Comment 4 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-03-21 16:31:15 UTC
This is intentional AFAIK; if you decide to mount with /etc/fstab, and you don't  mount under /media/foo or $HOME/foo, the best you can do is create a bookmark to your mount location. Otherwise, try to use such a path for your mount, and GVfs should pick it up automatically.
Comment 5 cxcxcxcx 2011-03-21 23:25:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> This is intentional AFAIK; if you decide to mount with /etc/fstab, and you
> don't  mount under /media/foo or $HOME/foo, the best you can do is create a
> bookmark to your mount location. Otherwise, try to use such a path for your
> mount, and GVfs should pick it up automatically.

Thanks. This solves my problem. But is this behavior at all documented?