mounted partitions have poor names

[Matthew East]

The partitions mounted on my desktop now have names, rather than being named after where they are mounted. The Windows disk is called "IBM_PRELOAD", which is fair enough I suppose.

However, there is a real problem with my other Ubuntu partition. It is on the desktop named "/". This looks bad, but also has another serious problem: I already have a root directory. So it looks like a link to my current root directory, and when I click, it looks like it too (given that it has the same structure). However, it isn't, it's /media/sda5.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

just discussed this issue with Seb. We will special-case away '/' labels.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 gnome-vfs2 (2.14.1-0ubuntu4) dapper; urgency=low
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   * Add debian/patches/17_improve_volume_labels.patch:
     - Ignore '/' volume labels, they lead to much confusion. Closes: LP#38764
     - Show the mount point (with '/media/' prefix stripped off) instead of 'XX
       MB removable device' for mounted volumes without a label.

[Jonathan Rascher (bcat)]

"Show the mount point (with '/media/' prefix stripped off) instead of 'XX MB removable device' for mounted volumes without a label."

This behavior seems to be broken in Hardy. I have a computer with two external hard drives (NTFS-formatted) mounted to /media/external and /media/backup, respectively. They both showed up on the desktop as "250.1 GB Media" until I gave them labels using ntfslabel from the ntfsprogs package. Does this have to do with the switch to gvfs?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

don't comment on closed bug, the gvfs equivalent is bug #190366

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Jonathan Rascher [2008-04-24 1:38 -0000]:
> Does this have to do with the switch to gvfs?

Yes, it does. Can you please look for an existing bug against
nautilus/gvfs and if there isn't one, report a new one? Thank you!