Bug#365670: nautilus: shows irrelevant mounted filesystems on the desktop

[Takis Diakoumis]

I am also noticing the exact behaviour described in this report.

i have 3 systems all running debian etch. many fstab entries are
displayed by gnome-vfs  - though not all of them. on this machine it
will only show the partition mounted at /usr/local in addition to a
not-mounted ntfs partition which comes up as '5.0GB Volume' - its a
laptop and i have a small windows partition for bios updates. it does
not display other partitions on this drive such as /boot and /home.

my desktop machine has 3 drives. in this case, it shows /usr/local again
from the primary drive and each of the other drives and their partitions
- usually as '<size> GB Volume'.

i just upgraded to libgnomevfs2-0 from unstable - 2.14.1-2 and this did
not solve the problem. in the meantime i have set the gconf setting
volumes_visible to false so at least i don't get a cluttered desktop -
though i do miss the hotplugged devices that used to come up.

i understand, some of this is by design - however it does clutter the
desktop as well as the nautilus tree view. the individual partitions
displayed must be in error. (its all very windows-like - drive a,b,c,d
etc..).

googling showed this issue is plaguing a few people - the closest screen
dump i have seen was posted by someone here:
http://jagga.rinux.net/stuff/nautilus_devices.png

thanks
Takis