I don't believe this to be the intended behavior. It may be a side- effect of moving to devicekit, but the intended behavior in Ubuntu has always been human readable names for mount points such as /media/disk, disk-1, disk-2... and so on.
Chris, please comment as you triage. Is there a reason you marked this bug as being of "Low" importance? I think of this kind of bug as urgent, it should be corrected before karmic is released. -- external usb disk drives are mounted under their UUID's https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390304 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs