Nautilus mounts all filesystems

[Alexander Larsson]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 12:23 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Dear Alexander:
> 
> I'm wondering if you may help with a suggestion. A recent update to
> Nautilus in Rawhide started to mount all filesystems it can find.
> Look at the goofy UID mountpoints under media:
> 
> [zaitcev at niphredil ~]$ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/N1-Fedora
>                       11109328   6180420   4355468  59% /
> /dev/sda2               132221     62889     62505  51% /boot
> tmpfs                   963128       100    963028   1% /dev/shm
> /dev/mapper/N1-Q      90826872  69911240  16301900  82% /q
> /dev/dm-3              5482948   3540836   1663584  69% /media/0b64f5ac-88c8-44bb-9a5a-f6a6c9cfe3b0
> /dev/dm-4              5776952   3715936   1762828  68% /media/5dd9d61a-9eaa-453d-8084-fa5be7f51eef

Wow. Cool stuff. :)
I CC:ed david zeuthen, he's doing most of the mount/filesystem/whatever
work.

> This is rather inconventient for my laptop where I have a few
> virtual systems. Usually they are mounted manually, through this
> /etc/fstab:
> 
> [zaitcev at niphredil ~]$ more /etc/fstab 
> /dev/N1/Fedora          /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> debug                   /sys/kernel/debug       debugfs defaults,noauto 0 0
> /dev/N1/Swap            swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/N1/Q               /q                      ext3    defaults,noatime 1 2
> /dev/N1/RHEL4           /mnt/rhel4              ext3    defaults,noauto 0 0
> /dev/N1/RHEL5           /mnt/rhel5              ext3    defaults,noauto 0 0

So, are the /dev/N1/RHEL4 things the same as whatever get mounted
as /dev/dm-3, etc above?

> So, is this behaviour configurable?
> 
> Failing that, I'm wondering if we could NOT mount volumes that ARE
> explicitly mentioned in /etc/fstab. Sounds counter-intuitive, but
> I like the way it works now for iPod, USB readers, flash keys, etc.
> I don't want to go back to caveman tricks... except for the multitude
> of special logical volumes.

This is actually whats supposed to happen. We're only automounting (and
even showing in the UI) things that are mounted in /media. However, I
think something is getting confused about your fstab and not
understanding some of the device node names, thus thinking they are not
in the fstab.

Or something suchlike. David, what do you think? You know this stuff
better.