Partitions on external hd are mounted twice

Hi,
Thanks for your report.

Can you post the contents of /etc/fstab ?

I have also noticed that if the fstab uses uuids for mounts, gnome-volume-manager creates a second desktop icon for the mount.

That looks to be it, I'm chock full of uid's *sarcastic sigh*

What version of Ubuntu are you running? This seems like an old bug that was fixed a while ago.

The latest and greatest, I did a fresh install right off the cd a day or 2 after edgy was officially released, and I've gotten all 10 updates since then.

I have the same problem with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. I did not have it with previous versions (6.06 and 6.10)
Strangely, it is displayed twice on my Gnome Desktop is the external hard drive was already plugged in before I booted. However, if my Gnome session is already started and I plug my external hard drive, it is shown once only.
You should notice that when I do 'df -k' my HD (1 partition only) is mounted only once. But Gnome displays it twice on the desktop.

I do not know if it is of importance, but the partition is NTFS. It is read only as this was how Ubuntu 6.06 mounted it and I did not change it since (I have always performed upgrade)

In case an image would be more understandable than a text, I am attaching a screenshot of my desk with the above mentioned problem.
The partition that is shown as mounted twice by Gnome is Landmannabok and it is a ntfs type. Here is the mtab entry (and it is only once in the mtab):
/dev/sdb1 /media/Landnamabok ntfs rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=222,utf8 0 0

(there are no fstab entries as this is a removable media)

Hi,

I have the same problem but with CDs. When I insert a disk before the boot up sequence (or it is already in the tray before boot) I have two icons for one disc on the desktop. If I unmount one (no matter which one) the other icon stays and is unmountable till I reboot.
Thanks
Dan

The same goes for all NTFS drives on all my machines. Each and every NTFS drive is displayed twice on the desktop.

They are displayed once labeled as their mount point like so: "sda1"
And once with an additional label, like so: "145GB NTFS volume (sda1)"
(this could also be their NTFS label, if they have one)

The same also for USB drives and other NTFS-formatted media.
This goes for both Ubuntu 6.10 and 7.10.

I have all the problem stated here. I'm running Gusty w/Gnome with all updates. The problem doesn't happen every time. It's happened on internal & external USB CD/DVD, and external NTFS and FAT32 partitions. And does not seem to happen on all drives at the same time.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? May you please try the same with Karmic? Thanks in advance.

This bug does not affect me any longer in Ubuntu 9.04.

thanks, marking this as fixed.