Nautilus seems to remember where it last placed the icon for some volumes. When a file (or another volume) already sits at that spot, there's an overlap. This, however, does not seem to happen for all volumes.
** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41494494/Screenshot.png -- Desktop icons are allowed to overlap horribly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/40872 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs