** Description changed: What has been done: Ubuntu 8.04 x64 installed, during setup I choosed manual partitioning (to avoid data deletion) and only setted up / mount point (since as far as I can guess from setup program all data on partitions choosen during setup about to be erased). What is the problem? After OS installed, only / is auto-mounded during boot.Other pre-existing partitions are not auto-mounted. File manager is able to auto-mount partitions when needed but actually this leads to a nasty issue. Applications, including Gnome itself are failing to open files from such volumes after startup. Actually, if you've used files from non-automounted partitions, many of programs getting "file not found" or similar errors. Furthermore, Gnome's panel for example failed to load background panel picture located on another partition. - All this is pretty annoying and what worse there is no evident option to enable mounting filesystems automatically on startup like in KDE.The only feature I see is in file manager, which requires manual entering of mount point and path to mount.This is a way too complicated and uncomfortable.Average user will fail to set-up auto-mounting. + All this is pretty annoying and what worse there is no evident option to enable mounting filesystems automatically on startup like in KDE.The only feature I see is volume properties dialog in file manager, which however requires manual entering of mount point, path and specify features manually.No easy locations pickers with reasonable default values, no way to choose common mounting options manually, nothing.This is a way too complicated and uncomfortable.Average user will fail to set-up auto-mounting at all and others will find this way ressembles editing /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab manually a way too much. I wonder why there is no good System -> Administration applet to set these things up.There is pretty useless "Removable drives and media" applet which can do nothing useful in this case for us. Suggested fix: Ideally it should look like following: 1) User's partitions are auto-mounted after install.Preferrable that setup should guide initial settings in manner like: "Setup has found the following "disks" (partitions) on your system, we're going mount partition X to place Y, partition A to place B, ... click here to change these settings manually" (so "stupid" users just rely on defaults and "not-so-stupid" have chance to arrange things here). 2) There should be easy and comfortable system applet to configure mounthig AFTER install, something like similar applet in KDE.
-- No easy way to mount pre-existing partitions after OS installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236663 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
