Ubuntu
gvfs package

Auto mount points of disk partitions changing with each boot

Bug #189514 reported by Slash123
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gvfs (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

Hi,

Am using Ubuntu Hardy (Alpha 3 through updates) and the nautilus version is 1:2.21.90-0ubuntu3.

My hard disk is partitioned into 3 other partitions apart from the ubuntu and swap partitions. These get mounted by nautilus automatically and appear on my desktop labelled as 'disk', disk1' and 'disk2' along with their sizes. The problem is that these labels change arbitrarily at each boot. This became a problem when I pointed transmission to download a torrent to a location on one drive, and on the next boot, transmission started from scratch and started downloading to another drive.

I understand that I should have labelled these drives, but didnt have any problems with this until now.

My suggestion is that nautilus should mount these drives according to the appearance in the partition table (/dev/sda1 -> disk, /dev/sda2 -> disk1, /dev/sda3 -> disk2, and so on, skipping the ubuntu and swap partitions of course).

Thanks!

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. How do you mount them? What sort of disks are those?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Don't specify versions to the title, the information is quickly outdated and create confusion and extra work, you can use the description to mention what version you are using

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Slash123 (manic-laughter) wrote :

The partitions are mounted automatically on logon (I didnt manually add them to fstab or anything).

The disks are logical partitions of my hard disk (ntfs partitions). The hard disk is 60 GB and is divided into 5 partitions - 3 ntfs (/dev/sda1 - 20GB, /dev/sda5 - 20GB, /dev/sda6 - 10GB), one ext3 (/dev/sda3 - 10GB - the Ubuntu partition) and one swap (/dev/sda7). The three ntfs partitions (/dev/sda1, /dev/sda5, /dev/sda6) keep changing labels (disk1, disk2, disk3) everytime I restart the computer.

PS> First time submitting a bug. Will definitely take care to incorporate your feedback regarding titles henceforth.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

likely due to gvfs, reassigning and unconfirmed until somebody looks at the details

Changed in nautilus:
status: Incomplete → New
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That should be fixed in hardy now, gvfs stopped automounting partitions and you can list the partitions in fstab or use labels to get a consistant directory usage

Changed in gvfs:
status: New → Fix Released
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Slash123 (manic-laughter) wrote :

Thanks.

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