F13 duplicate disk icons in Nautilus

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Fri May 28 16:14:09 UTC 2010


----- "Matthias Clasen" <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:51 +0800, Andrew Smith wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I'm getting 2x icons for each of my drives that are mounted in F13.
> > 
> > My /etc/fstab for these drives is:
> > 
> > LABEL=files                   /media/files                         
> ext4 
> > rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,user,exec 0 0
> > LABEL=files-backup     /media/files-backup             ext4 
> > rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,user,exec 0 0
> > LABEL=media                /media/media                       ext4 
> > rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,user,exec 0 0
> > LABEL=media-backup  /media/media-backup          ext4 
> > rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,user,exec 0 0
> > 
> > The drives are mounting automatically in /media and their icons
> appear 
> > once on the Gnome desktop.
> > 
> > However, in Nautilus I get two icons - one for the mounted drive and
> one 
> > for the drive as if it's unmounted.
> > 
> > Any ideas why this might be happening - I've had a look at the
> settings 
> > for Nautilus in gconf-editor but everything is set to default.
> > 
> 
> If you mount things via fstab, please don't mount them under /media.
> The
> desktop assumes that /media is the location for automounted things.
> I'm
> almost certain that your problem will disappear if you change the
> location.

Well that's really good to know!

Is that a bug or a feature? It's surely not a widespread knowledge.


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