GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 644602
Partitions mounted via fstab are not displayed in "Devices" of nautilus
Last modified: 2011-03-21 23:25:38 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.
Thank you for your bug report. What version of nautilus (and gvfs) are you using?
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
Okay, thanks for the prompt answer. Updating the version field accordingly.
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.
(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?