Public bug reported:
What has been done:
Ubuntu 8.04 x64 installed, during setup I choosed manual partitioning (to
avoid data deletion) and only setted up / mount point (since as far as I can
guess from setup program all data on partitions choosen during setup about to
be erased).
What is the problem?
After OS installed, only / is auto-mounded during boot.Other pre-existing
partitions are not auto-mounted.
File manager is able to auto-mount partitions when needed but actually this
leads to a nasty issue.
Applications, including Gnome itself are failing to open files from such
volumes after startup.
Actually, if you've used files from non-automounted partitions, many of
programs getting "file not found" or similar errors.
Furthermore, Gnome's panel for example failed to load background panel picture
located on another partition.
All this is pretty annoying and what worse there is no evident option to
enable mounting filesystems automatically on startup like in KDE.The only
feature I see is volume properties dialog in file manager, which however
requires manual entering of mount point, path and specify features manually.No
easy locations pickers with reasonable default values, no way to choose common
mounting options manually, nothing.This is a way too complicated and
uncomfortable.Average user will fail to set-up auto-mounting at all and others
will find this way ressembles editing /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab manually a way
too much.
I wonder why there is no good System -> Administration applet to set
these things up.There is pretty useless "Removable drives and media"
applet which can do nothing useful in this case for us.
Suggested fix:
Ideally it should look like following:
1) User's partitions are auto-mounted after install.Preferrable that setup
should guide initial settings in manner like:
"Setup has found the following "disks" (partitions) on your system, we're
going mount partition X to place Y, partition A to place B, ... click here to
change these settings manually" (so "stupid" users just rely on defaults and
"not-so-stupid" have chance to arrange things here).
2) There should be easy and comfortable system applet to configure mounthig
AFTER install, something like similar applet in KDE.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: automount mount partitions settings
** Description changed:
What has been done:
- Ubuntu 8.04 x64 installed, during setup I choosed manuak partitioning and
only / mount point since as far as I can guess from setup program all data on
partitions choosen during setup about to be erased.
+ Ubuntu 8.04 x64 installed, during setup I choosed manual partitioning (to
avoid data deletion) and only setted up / mount point (since as far as I can
guess from setup program all data on partitions choosen during setup about to
be erased).
What is the problem?
After OS installed, only / is auto-mounded during boot.Other pre-existing
partitions are not auto-mounted.
File manager is able to auto-mount partitions when needed but actually this
leads to a nasty issue.
Applications, including Gnome itself are failing to open files from such
volumes after startup.
Actually, if you've used files from non-automounted partitions, many of
programs getting "file not found" or similar errors.
Furthermore, Gnome's panel for example failed to load background panel
picture located on another partition.
All this is pretty annoying and what worse there is no evident option to
enable mounting filesystems automatically on startup like in KDE.The only
feature I see is in file manager, which requires manual entering of mount point
and path to mount.This is a way too complicated and uncomfortable.Average user
will fail to set-up auto-mounting.
I wonder why there is no good System -> Administration applet to set
these things up.There is pretty useless "Removable drives and media"
applet which can do nothing useful in this case for us.
Suggested fix:
Ideally it should look like following:
1) User's partitions are auto-mounted after install.Preferrable that setup
should guide initial settings in manner like:
"Setup has found the following "disks" (partitions) on your system, we're
going mount partition X to place Y, partition A to place B, ... click here to
change these settings manually" (so "stupid" users just rely on defaults and
"not-so-stupid" have chance to arrange things here).
2) There should be easy and comfortable system applet to configure mounthig
AFTER install, something like similar applet in KDE.
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No easy way to mount pre-existing partitions after OS installed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236663
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