disk mount stores impossible mount point

[Matthew Carroll]

Hi

If I attempt to create a custom mount point for a removable drive as follows, and enter the full path I want the drive mounted at (e.g. "/media/compactflash") this input is accepted, but then the drive canot be mounted.

As I have discovered, what is required is simply the last part of the mount point location (e.g. "compactflash" in this case), but this is not clear from the properties dialogue and no validation is done on the input.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Insert removable disk
2. Right click on disk icon on desktop, select properties
3. In drive tab, under "Mount Point" add a full directory, e.g. "/media/compactflash")
4. Click close
5. Right click and eject disk
6. Re-insert disk

Result:

error: "moint_point cannot contain the following characters: newline, G_DIR_SEPARATOR (usually /)"

Expected behaviour:

properties dialogue should have validated input and rejected invalid mountpoint

Thanks
Matthew

[Matthew Carroll (m-tthew)]

See also:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2477846

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

What desktop environment are you using (Ubuntu/Kubuntu) and which version?

[Matthew Carroll (m-tthew)]

Sorry!

Ubuntu 7.04 (installed from 20070415 daily build), with all upgrades applied.

Matthew

[wolfger (wolfger)]

This old bug is from a daily build pre-Feisty. Is it still an issue, or can we close this?

[wolfger (wolfger)]

No response in 30 day. We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Greg Tourville (greg-tour)]

This is still an issue in Ubuntu 8.10.

[Aitor Pazos (aitorpazos)]

I'm having this issue in intrepid. Please, someone solves it

[Aitor Pazos (aitorpazos)]

The problem is that what you can insert in the "mount point" field is not a full path. You should type the name of the folder inside "/media/" where the partition will be mounted. It works if you just type this name. I think this is a right behavior but the "Mount Point" text label should be different, because it suggests a full path mount point.