"Create new >Link to > Hard disk device" doesn't work with UUIDs/LABELs in fstab
Bug #150399 reported by
pelle.k
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KDE Base |
Unknown
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Wishlist
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kdebase (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This applies to gutsy gibbon 7.10 as of 2007-10-08 (beta, fully updated)
Mounting/Browsing drives defined using the default method (UUID) in fstab, does *not* work using a link to the device created with "Create new > Link to > Hard disk device" right click menu on the KDE desktop root window. LABELs doesn't work either. It has to be done using /dev nodes.
This can be done in "System settings -> Advanced -> Disk and filesystems", but that is only a workaround, not a solution.
description: | updated |
Changed in kdebase: | |
importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
status: | New → Unknown |
Changed in kdebase: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in kdebase: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
Changed in kde-baseapps: | |
status: | New → Unknown |
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This still applies to the Hardy Heron (using the beta ATM), and the solution to the problem is really simple, but since ubuntu and kubuntu shares base packages, it may not be the best idea to have kubuntu do it's own thing with /etc/fstab.
Anyway, you can do what ubuntu does with UUID= using /dev/disk/by-uuid, and all of a sudden kde can create a valid "shortcut to hard disk device" on the desktop. same same, but different ;)
A note to anyone reading this. If you want to convert your /etc/fstab, then run this command(s); |\/dev\ /disk\/ by-uuid\ /|' /etc/fstab.bak | sudo tee /etc/fstab
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak; sed 's|UUID=