Public bug reported:
1. The bug found in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS with the latest updates up to June
3, 2008.
2. Please, note that in text below I use "automount" term to underline
that a partition is not mounted manually but through making an entry to
fstab instead. That is a partition is intended to be mounted
permanently at a desired location.
The description follows.
I have a large partition on my 200GB HDD with some bunch of unrelated
data. I want to automount it into /home/user_name/data folder I
created. I edited my fstab to my wish and rebooted. The partition is
mounted and I can use it accessing /home/user_name/data folder but...
Nautilus creates an absolutely unneeded and unwanted icon in the Tree
view of its browser Side Pane. While I want instead my automounted
partition being absolutely transparent for a user. I want the user to
use /home/user_name/data folder as it would be just a regular folder
with a bunch of data in it.
I do not want additional icons providing and additional and confusing to the
user point of access to the same /home/user_name/data folder in his/her home
directory.
I've tried to automount the partition at different locations such as
/mnt, /var/data instead with the same poor result.
Finally I found a workaround for it: I automounted the partition in
/home/data directory instead of /home/user_name/data directory. To my
surpise Nautilus did not creat any icons at this time, and I could
achieve the desired result by simply creating a link from
/home/user_name/data to /home/data.
But still it is just a workaround and not correct behaviour. Thus I do
beleave that such behaviour of Nautilus is a bug and quite serious from
a user point of view. I think such icons should be created only for
manually mounted drives/partions and for removable media but not for
permanently mounted drives/partitions.
Thak you,
Vito
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Unwanted icon created in Nautilus Browser Tree view for automounted partition.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237269
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