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Mounted Drives do not appear in Desktop or "Disk Mounter"

Bug #92099 reported by cenora
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Bug Description

After upgrading Ubuntu from Edgy to Feisty, the Windows NTFS partitions failed to show up in the Desktop and in the "Disk Mounter".

Here is my configuration:
IBM T42 laptop with 3 partitions:
1) Gentoo linux 5GB (EXT2)
2) Windows XP 15GB (NTFS)
3) Windows Vista 15GB (NTFS)

External USB Drive with 3 partitions:
1) USB 240GB (NTFS)
2) Ubuntu linux (where my distro runs) 20GB (20GB)
3) Linux Swap 1GB (Linux Swap)

The 3 NTFS partitions showed up as mounted drives previously. After the upgrade, they are STILL mounted, but do not appear on the desktop or "Places" menu.

Here is my /etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/mapper/sda2 :
UUID=a34e3127-d298-485b-9661-03c23ffb1783 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/mapper/sda4 :
UUID=5983e2dc-99e3-474c-a7d7-ea31d0b25ac0 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /media/windowsXP ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/USB250GB ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/windowsVista ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

Hope this helps, if you need additional information, please let me know.

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cenora (cenora) wrote : Re: [Bug 92099] Re: Mounted Drives do not appear in Desktop or "Disk Mounter"

Brian:

Here is the output of the "mount" command:

cenora@USB-Ubuntu:~$ mount
/dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.20-10-386/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /media/windowsXP type
fuseblk(rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda1 on /media/USB250GB type
fuseblk(rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/hda2 on /media/windowsVista type fuseblk
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
cenora@USB-Ubuntu:~$

Hope this helps as well. I'm not exactly sure what "fuseblk" means, because
I guess before it used to show as "NTFS-3G" or something similar. Could this
be a problem ?
Another info is that external media (such as a Pendrive) will mount and show
up appropriately.

Claudio

On 3/14/07, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Sourcepackagename: None => nautilus
>
> --
> Mounted Drives do not appear in Desktop or "Disk Mounter"
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/92099
>

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Szabolcs Szakacsits (szaka) wrote :

From ntfs-3g upstream: yes, depending on the kernel version and other issues, the file system type (fstype) can be: fuse, fuseblk, fuse.ntfs-3g and fuseblk.ntfs-3g.

The 'ntfs-3g' sub part of the fstype should stay in the future but it's not available yet in stable Linux kernels, only in Linus' development tree. This FUSE feature was added recently to help the identification of the user space fstype by e.g. mount helpers and make its detection independent of FUSE's internal evolution, e.g. the introduction of the new, additional fuseblk FUSE fstype which was required for safe block devices support.

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cenora (cenora) wrote :

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