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"Create new >Link to > Hard disk device" doesn't work with UUIDs/LABELs in fstab

Bug #150399 reported by pelle.k
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Bug Description

This applies to gutsy gibbon 7.10 as of 2007-10-08 (beta, fully updated)
Mounting/Browsing drives defined using the default method (UUID) in fstab, does *not* work using a link to the device created with "Create new > Link to > Hard disk device" right click menu on the KDE desktop root window. LABELs doesn't work either. It has to be done using /dev nodes.
This can be done in "System settings -> Advanced -> Disk and filesystems", but that is only a workaround, not a solution.

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pelle.k (pele2)
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pelle.k (pele2) wrote :

This still applies to the Hardy Heron (using the beta ATM), and the solution to the problem is really simple, but since ubuntu and kubuntu shares base packages, it may not be the best idea to have kubuntu do it's own thing with /etc/fstab.
Anyway, you can do what ubuntu does with UUID= using /dev/disk/by-uuid, and all of a sudden kde can create a valid "shortcut to hard disk device" on the desktop. same same, but different ;)

A note to anyone reading this. If you want to convert your /etc/fstab, then run this command(s);
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak; sed 's|UUID=|\/dev\/disk\/by-uuid\/|' /etc/fstab.bak | sudo tee /etc/fstab

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote :

KDE 4 provides a fancy dropdown, still not using UUID, but something.

Please forward this report to http://bugs.kde.org and paste the report's URL here.

Changed in kdebase:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Jonathan Aquilina (eagles051387)
Changed in kdebase:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
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In , Jonathan Aquilina (eagles051387) wrote :

Version: (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS: Linux
Installed from: I Don't Know

This applies to gutsy gibbon 7.10 as of 2007-10-08 (beta, fully updated)
Mounting/Browsing drives defined using the default method (UUID) in fstab, does *not* work using a link to the device created with "Create new > Link to > Hard disk device" right click menu on the KDE desktop root window. LABELs doesn't work either. It has to be done using /dev nodes.
This can be done in "System settings -> Advanced -> Disk and filesystems", but that is only a workaround, not a solution.

this bug can be found at https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/150399

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in kdebase:
status: Unknown → New
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Hello there,

Kubuntu currently does not have the manpower necessary to implement this feature as a distribution, so we are closing this report. Worry not, though, because your wish item is still being tracked by KDE at http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191484 . Once KDE implements this feature, we will include it in the Kubuntu release which contains the KDE version the feature was implemented in.

Thanks for understanding, and have a nice day.

Changed in kdebase (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in kdebase:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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In , A-samirh78 (a-samirh78) wrote :

"Hard disk device" entry in the "create new" menu hasn't been offered for some time.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in kde-baseapps:
status: New → Unknown
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