Ubuntu
nautilus package

filesystem browser: Macs don't have floppy drives

Bug #7534 reported by David D Miller
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Colin Watson

Bug Description

In the filesystem browser, at the "Computer" level, it shows a device called
"Floppy 1". Unless it's a really old Mac (first series G3 and older), it's not
going to have a floppy drive, and having an icon for it there is only going to
confuse people. I would bet this is probably the case for a lot of newer PC
laptops these days, too.

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David D Miller (justdave) wrote :

This is another installation defaults thing. Nautilus is just using what's
listed in /etc/fstab, which includes an entry for /dev/fd0 by default. This
entry probably shouldn't be there (or be there and commented out) on machines
that don't have floppy drives at install time.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

OK, I'll take this, then. Strange that devfs is creating /dev/floppy/* in d-i,
though; without that you wouldn't have these entries.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

I don't know about powerpc, but on x86 I'm not sure that it's always possible to
determine if a floppy is connected, only if a floppy controller is present

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Interestingly, on my PowerBook d-i does not add a floppy entry to /etc/fstab.

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David D Miller (justdave) wrote :

clean install from Sounder 8, no floppy drive in the Computer window. If it
really was a problem, it seems to be fixed...

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

WORKSFORDAVE, no other reports, so closing. Reopen if it resurfaces.

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