Bug#433835: nautilus: No documentation on which volumen devices icons are shown and which filtered

Sven Arvidsson sa at whiz.se
Sat Aug 25 21:28:45 UTC 2007


reassign 433835 hal 
thanks

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:12 +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> I have quite a convoluted disk partitioning scheme in my local system:
> 
> $ LC_ALL=C df -kl
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1               964500    422156    493348  47% /
> tmpfs                   518068         0    518068   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                     10240        96     10144   1% /dev
> tmpfs                   518068         4    518064   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda3              1921188   1626568    197028  90% /var
> /dev/hda5              4806904   3638308    924412  80% /usr
> /dev/hda6             19228276   1977400  16274128  11% /usr2
> /dev/sda1            307663800 185602844 106432524  64% /home
> /dev/hdg1             38464340  34108420   2402016  94% /home/mirrors
> /dev/hda7             49066116  45874256    699380  99% /home/mirrors/debian
> 
> For some reason, this Nautilus version does not represent all of the
> available partitions as "devices" in the Desktop and in the "Places".
> It currently only shows icons for the following locations:
> 
> /usr2
> /home/mirrors
> /home/mirrors/debian
> 
> Previous versions did show all the devices, including /usr, /var and /home.
> 
> I've been unable to find in Nautilus documentation what criteria does it use
> to present volumes in the user's Desktop and how to adjust that criteria to
> suit my needs.
> 
> Could this behaviour please be documented somewhere?

After reading bug 415893, it seems this bug belongs to HAL. 

Similar to the request in 415893, maybe a short explanation in
README.Debian about which volumes is shown could be appropriate?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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