Partitions aren't available in computer:///

I believe this is correct behavior for all non-removeable hard drives and partitions. Linux represents all partions and drives as one filesytem.

Thanks for your bug. What keys are selected with gconf-editor for /system/storage? Is that a new issue you have? Do you have them to the panel Places menu?

I have the same problem with up-to-date Dapper.
In /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda7 /data vfat defaults,users,umask=077,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0

It got mounted correctly, and if i go to /data with nautilus everything is there, but the icon doesn't appear on Desktop or in Computer.

In gconf, /system/storage is empty.

Really weird... This seems to be a regression from Hoary days!

Doing a "/etc/init.d/dbus restart" makes the icons appear once again on desktop.

This seems to be the same bug as old https://launchpad.net/bugs/13985

Does mounting the partition to /media makes any difference?

From the hal changelog

" - Now ignore volumes on non-hottpluggable and non-removable volumes unless
      they are mounted under /mnt or /media, or are a mounted NTFS or VFAT
      partition. This should come close to what the majority of users will
      want to see.
    - Malone #34886 (might also fix at leastparts of #13554)"

which has been changed to be only for the media directory

Mounting under /media or /mnt makes no difference.

I've just remembered a dirty workaround from the hoary days, that consist of renaming the /dev/hda1 entry to dev/hda1. That makes the partition show on computer:///

That's what makes me think this is the same old bug...

Martin, any idea on that?

I have the same problem. /etc/init.d/dbus restart helps if the drive is mounted.

I have the same problem...

You are right Adolfo, it's like the old bug ! just write "dev/hdax" and not "/dev/hdax" in fstab, and drives are back !

Strange to have a so old bug back...

The dev/hdax trick just works for showing mounted partitions on Desktop and Computer:///. But if you try to mount (using nautilus) any of this partitions, you get a Partition not found in /etc/fstab error.

Anyway, will this terrible bug be fixed before Dapper release?
Hope so...

Yes you're right about the error when you try to mount a partition. But it's possible if you use the drive-mount applet ! I don't know why, but it works with the applet...

And something new with today's update : before I could see my CD/DVD drive, even with "/dev/hdx" in the fstab. But now, I can't anymore ! I have to use the same trick if I want to see it. It's not annoying with this drive, because when you put a CD in, it appears and is mounted automatically.

But, for me, it's getting worse and worse with my drives...

Hope so too...

> It's not annoying with
> this drive, because when you put a CD in, it appears and is mounted
> automatically.
>
> But, for me, it's getting worse and worse with my drives...
>
> Hope so too...

What is the issue? What is it worse for you if "It's not annoying"?

I don't know if it's a bug with the CD/DVD drive, maybe it's normal, it's the new behavior, because yes, it's not annoying. But it is for the others partitions.

I said it's getting worse and worse because I had a problem ... with K3B... so nothing to do here, you're right.

Everything seems to be broken here too... I added my /dev/sdb1 device to the /etc/pmount.allow as to make it user-mountable but nautilus doesn't seem to get notified when the volume gets mounted. Restarting dbus actually causes the volume to get displayed on the desktop. Funny thing is, pumount it and it's still there, the restart-dbus trick doesn't seem to work when unmounting the volume.

After latest updates, every partition now appears on computer:///, but still not mounted volumes on Desktop, and no partitions (just the removable media) on Places menu.

That's the way it's intended to be, computer place list everything, Desktop only partitions mounted to /media and removables devices, marking as fixed

I get the partitions in computer:/// but clicking/mounting them doesn't do much. It does mount the partition, but you have to close then open computer:/// for it to notice the change

I still think this is a bug to be fixed.

This is how my computer:/// looks like after bootup:
http://infinito.f2o.org/imagenes/Browser1.png
In the Desktop you can see only icons for removable harddrive and ftp shares.

Then, after doing "/etc/init.d/dbus restart", the computer:/// changes, and icons for the other partitions mounted appears on desktop:
http://infinito.f2o.org/imagenes/Browser2.png