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03-10-2018, 04:55 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2009
Location: Zwolle, NL
Distribution: Namib, Manjaro, Cubox, Raspberry pi,ODROID,MIUI
Posts: 27
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mounts boot, home and "main folder of the filesystem" in sidebar of filemanagers but no usb mount
Strange mounts; boot, home and "main folder of filesystem" in filemanagers
Three partitions appear mounted in (not only) Nautilus (but every) side-bar called "Places" /boot / (written as "main folder of filesystem") and /home all with the eject button that (obviously) does not work.
I looked into the settings of Nautilus an those of the GnomeTweakTool as well, but can't find anything to get rid of those mounts.
It was gone for a couple of weeks, but now it's back.
Even worst: plugged in USB devices do not appear, it seems they don't mount automagically anymore.
This appears not to be a Nautilus problem because these three mounts also appear in Nemo and Thunar and when selecting Gnome Tweak Tool -> Desktop -> (Show) Mounted Volumes they appear on the desktop. So it might as well be a Gnome (3.26.2) problem.
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03-10-2018, 05:53 AM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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i don't think it's a gnome problem either.
please give us some information about your system:
which distro
when did you install
how does it deviate from a standard, vanilla install
output of 'mount' command
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03-10-2018, 10:20 AM
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#3
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2013
Location: Somewhere in my head.
Distribution: Slackware (15 current), Slack15, Ubuntu studio, MX Linux, FreeBSD 13.1, WIn10
Posts: 10,342
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what does your filesystem look like? ls /
printout of fstab. cat /etc/fstab
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03-10-2018, 08:35 PM
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#4
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: USA and Italy
Distribution: Debian testing/sid; OpenSuSE; Fedora; Mint
Posts: 5,524
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It doesn't sound like a problem.
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03-11-2018, 01:17 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2009
Location: Zwolle, NL
Distribution: Namib, Manjaro, Cubox, Raspberry pi,ODROID,MIUI
Posts: 27
Original Poster
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@ondoho and @BW-userx thanks for your fast replies.
I'm on Fedora 27, WM is Gnome X11, no Wayland because of nvidia's driver.
I found out that this problem does not exist on "Gnome Classical" but I really don't like that Applications and Locations menu (and, even worse, the bottom windows bar that covers my Dock)
Mount and fstab are here https://pastebin.com/v4Y0iPD0
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when did you install
how does it deviate from a standard, vanilla install
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I always upgrade about a month after a new release is out, hoping most of the child diseases are cured. Must have been around half February.
In the ten years that I run Fedora only one time had to do a clean install, took me a week and a half, never again...
Also this dirty old system quite deviates from a standard, vanilla install say the least! :-D
@AwesomeMachine
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It doesn't sound like a problem.
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I totally agree with that but then again "not all problems sound." ;-)
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03-11-2018, 03:00 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2013
Location: Somewhere in my head.
Distribution: Slackware (15 current), Slack15, Ubuntu studio, MX Linux, FreeBSD 13.1, WIn10
Posts: 10,342
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as suspected you do have a partition named boot
Code:
UUID=62fffe91-d64f-4448-b675-7734f2a307a4 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
so what file manager are you using, some have within the preferences a option on what mounts to show. That can be selected or de-selected. and some work long with the desktop to show them on the desktop, or the desktop itself has somewhere within it's settings what to show and what not to show for mounts on the desktop. xfce4 for example, when I run that I got all kinds of folders on my desktop for everything, all of my partitions and usb mounts when plugged in etc...
I don't much pay attention to it because I am rarely in xfce4 else I'd remove them all using the setting on what mounts to show.
PCMANFM shows all of my partitions as well, I just do not click on them unless I want to access them. it is really a norm.
Last edited by BW-userx; 03-11-2018 at 03:04 PM.
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03-11-2018, 03:00 PM
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#7
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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what you describe tallies with your fstab and mount.
maybe you can fix it by adding some comments to the fstab entries.
i have for example
Code:
defaults,comment=x-gvfs-show
on some entries - you would want the opposite of that.
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03-11-2018, 05:16 PM
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#8
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2009
Location: Zwolle, NL
Distribution: Namib, Manjaro, Cubox, Raspberry pi,ODROID,MIUI
Posts: 27
Original Poster
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@BW-userx I'm using the Nautilus file manager. There is nothing in the preferences concerning mounted volumes for sure. There is a setting in the Gnome Tweak Tool to mount volumes on the desktop but that also only mounts root, boot and home on the desktop and (...you guessed it!) no plugged in usb stick or disk drive.
@ondoho I'm sorry but I don't know what you mean by
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defaults,comment=x-gvfs-show on some entries - you would want the opposite of that.
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Do you mean defaults,comment=x-gvfs-hide?
My laptop also runs Fedora 27 and no problem there, the fstab is (apart from volume names) the same.
Last edited by linuxghost; 03-11-2018 at 05:20 PM.
Reason: clarification
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