thank you for the reply, gnome-vfs has been patched for edgy to not have duplicates due to uuid, marking as fixed
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Fix Released -- dapper rc1 Root filesystem in Nautilus showing twice https://launchpad.net/bugs/47378 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs