[Hardy] Set mount point for USB drive, fails to mount, no way to fix

[Shaun Crampton]

When I plug in my USB drive it is mounted as /media/disk-X where X is a number. I wanted to change this so that it asways mounted at /media/passport so I
  - right clicked the mounted icon
  - selected properties
  - selected the Volume tab
  - typed /media/passport
  - closed the dialog.

I then created the /media/passport directory as root and then reinserted the USB drive. I was greeted by an error message, telling me the drive couldn't be mounted (screenshot attached).

There are several problems here:
  - There is now no way to remove the bad setting. Since the drive isn't mounted it doesn't get an icon to examine the properties.
  - The error message is poor and technical and its title bar is empty.
  - The properties dialog UI is poor in several ways:
    - It doesn't validate the settings.
    - It doesn't give help or examples (I assumed that a mount point would be a path but it sounds like it can't contain a slash so that must be a mistake).

[Shaun Crampton (fasaxc)]

As a workaround, the bad config can be removed by deleting the relevant file under ~/.gconf/system/storage/volumes/ and restarting gconfd.

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

Confirming. I think there might be a bug for this somewhere already, but can't find