Nautilus mounts all filesystems
Alexander Larsson
alexl at redhat.com
Thu Mar 19 19:03:04 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:23 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Dear Alexander:
>
> I'm wondering if you may help with a suggestion. A recent update to
> Nautilus in Rawhide started to mount all filesystems it can find.
> Look at the goofy UID mountpoints under media:
>
> [zaitcev at niphredil ~]$ df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/N1-Fedora
> 11109328 6180420 4355468 59% /
> /dev/sda2 132221 62889 62505 51% /boot
> tmpfs 963128 100 963028 1% /dev/shm
> /dev/mapper/N1-Q 90826872 69911240 16301900 82% /q
> /dev/dm-3 5482948 3540836 1663584 69% /media/0b64f5ac-88c8-44bb-9a5a-f6a6c9cfe3b0
> /dev/dm-4 5776952 3715936 1762828 68% /media/5dd9d61a-9eaa-453d-8084-fa5be7f51eef
Wow. Cool stuff. :)
I CC:ed david zeuthen, he's doing most of the mount/filesystem/whatever
work.
> This is rather inconventient for my laptop where I have a few
> virtual systems. Usually they are mounted manually, through this
> /etc/fstab:
>
> [zaitcev at niphredil ~]$ more /etc/fstab
> /dev/N1/Fedora / ext3 defaults 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> debug /sys/kernel/debug debugfs defaults,noauto 0 0
> /dev/N1/Swap swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/N1/Q /q ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2
> /dev/N1/RHEL4 /mnt/rhel4 ext3 defaults,noauto 0 0
> /dev/N1/RHEL5 /mnt/rhel5 ext3 defaults,noauto 0 0
So, are the /dev/N1/RHEL4 things the same as whatever get mounted
as /dev/dm-3, etc above?
> So, is this behaviour configurable?
>
> Failing that, I'm wondering if we could NOT mount volumes that ARE
> explicitly mentioned in /etc/fstab. Sounds counter-intuitive, but
> I like the way it works now for iPod, USB readers, flash keys, etc.
> I don't want to go back to caveman tricks... except for the multitude
> of special logical volumes.
This is actually whats supposed to happen. We're only automounting (and
even showing in the UI) things that are mounted in /media. However, I
think something is getting confused about your fstab and not
understanding some of the device node names, thus thinking they are not
in the fstab.
Or something suchlike. David, what do you think? You know this stuff
better.
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