Xubuntu 8.04 beta not mounting my other partitions

[belovedmonster]

I'm new to reporting bugs so go easy...

I'm using the Xubuntu 8.04 beta liveCD and it is not mounting my windows partitions. It mounts external USB drives automatically as I would expect but the other partitions on the machine dont show up. I found that loading up Gparted will mount these other partitions OK but they still dont show up on the desktop or on the left hand side of thunar like they would with 7.10.

I'm guessing these partitions should be mounting OK, or at least showing up on the desktop and in thunars side menu once they have mounted, so is this a bug?

[Alan Young (alanfyoung)]

Don't know if this is a bug as such, more of a wishlist item perhaps? The wish being that Xubuntu liveCDs should detect internal hard drive partitions and iconify them in the gui, allowing the user to graphically mount and then browse them.

If I put an Ubuntu (i.e. Gnome) liveCD in my machine, click on Places > Computer, Nautilus opens a window containing an icon for the partition on my machine's internal hdd on which my regular, "everyday" version of Ubuntu is installed. Clicking on this icon gives me the option to mount this, which in turn allows me to browse the entire installed filesystem on this internal hdd using Nautilus. Ubuntu liveCDs from Feisty onwards have enabled this procedure. (As I recall, the original Warty liveCD allowed graphical access to internal partitions - by an icon on the desktop if I remember correctly - but such access was not available from liveCDs from Hoary-Edgy inclusive.)

However, even the latest daily build of the Xubuntu Hardy liveCD does not enable the above gui-based procedure - as belovedmonster discovered when trying to access Windows partitions using the beta version.

What makes this odd is that I *can* access the internal hdd partition on my machine using another xfce-based liveCD - ZenwalkLive 5.0. This would appear to automount the partition under /mnt, which I can then browse graphically using Thunar (by clicking on the /mnt icon in the 'Filesystem' window - this icon being slightly differently from the rest, indicating I guess that something of interest is indeed mounted there).

So why should Xubuntu not allow graphical access to the contents of internal partitions?

N.B. this is not necessarily a request that Xubuntu should automount them as ZenwalkLive does - merely that it should match the functionality of Gnome-based Ubuntu liveCDs in allowing the user to choose to mount them graphically.

[belovedmonster (jd-hartland)]

I wasnt sure if this was a LiveCD issue and that once properly installed Xubuntu would show the partitions on my desktop just fine (as it does with my installation of Xubuntu 7.10) but when I asked on the IRC channel people seemed to be off the opinion that it should have worked on the LiveCD. Was I miss informed? It's been that long since I used the 7.10 liveCD I cant remember if this showed the icons on my desktop or not.

[Andreas Berger (andi-berger)]

shouldn't thunar at least show mounted internal partitions? i am asking because in 8.04 it does not.
it displays external devices such as usb drives, but it does not show (properly mounted) internal partitions, which is an odd combination.
i am talking about icons in the sidebar and on the desktop if it is handled by thunar.

i am wondering if i should file a new bug, because the title of this one does not quite hit the point, it is not about mounting drives, it is about displaying icons for them in thunar.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. What you submitted is not really a bug, or a problem in the current implementation of the software, but rather a feature request. Xubuntu has a site for collecting new ideas just like this and I encourage you to submit to, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/IdeaPool. If you prefer, you may also make your suggestion on the Ubuntu Idea site: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

[superphysics (superphysics)]

In that case, my apologies. I will submit it to the idea pool.

2008/7/18 Charlie Kravetz <email address hidden>:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. What you submitted is not really a bug, or a problem in
> the current implementation of the software, but rather a feature
> request. Xubuntu has a site for collecting new ideas just like this and
> I encourage you to submit to,
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/IdeaPool. If you prefer, you may
> also make your suggestion on the Ubuntu Idea site:
> http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
>
> --
> Xubuntu 8.04 beta not mounting my other partitions
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212028
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>