Thank you for the extra-quick follow up to the bug report! Interesting observation about SATA being hot-pluggable. Still, I think that would explain *why* the partition shows up like it does, but I would argue that if the behaviour is intended, I disagree with the design choice that was made for at least two reasons:
1. you might well remove a device, but not a single partition, 2. the partition is mounted with the nouser option at boot time, so its typical usage won't be that of a removable device such a usb stick or external hard drive that a user can plug/unplug freely, but rather it will be handled by the sysadmin via CLI. 3. SATA is taking over desktop computing, and users would simply be alienated by having their internal drives listed among the removable ones. IMO, a good compromise would be to display as "removable" only those partitions that the user has the possiblity to mount/unmount. I am unaware how the fedora team solved the issue in v17 though. Anyhow: I just wrote the above to illustrate my own thinking and support debate. I would be very interested in reading alternative takes on this. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/999742 Title: Partitions displayed as removable devices To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/999742/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
