nfs mount shown under devices not network

[Jens Breitbart]

I have an nfs mount, which gets automatically mounted at startup using /etc/fstab. Files shows the mount in the sidebar under the device category using he network icon. I think it would make more sense to show it under the network category.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

What address appears in the pathbar when you are viewing this location? If it appears as /media/xxxx/yyyy then it would not be easy to distinguish it from any other mounted device/location.

Locations that appear under "Network" have schemas other than file:// or trash://, for example smb:// or ftp://

[Jens Breitbart (jbreitbart)]

Oh, I see the issue. Yes, it shows itself as /media/...

Solution:
I am not sure. From a command line I would just run

$ stat -f -L -c %T /media/xxx/yyy
nfs

and get the required information. However, what confuses me, is that you already show the correct icon (see attachment), so you should already have the required information.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

Hmm, yes, I agree the icon contradicts the position of the item under Devices. I'll check the code that assigns the icon.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

The icon is obtained from the VolumeMonitor. However, I have tried setting up NFS server on another machine on the local network and mounting the exported folders at /mnt in fstab - but in Files these just appears as ordinary folders below /mnt - not as mounted devices. Please could you give more details regarding your set up so that I can reproduce it?

[Jens Breitbart (jbreitbart)]

I think you need to mount it to a different directory. Please try /media/<username>/something

I don't know why /mnt is not showing up under devices, but I just used my configuration and only changed the mount point to /mnt/ and it disappeared from files. Changing it back to /media/jbreitbart/piserve/ made it appear again. For what it is worth, this is my /etc/fstab line:

piserve:/media/disk /media/jbreitbart/piserve nfs soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0