[Bug 696130] Re: external harddisk not accessible by default

2011-01-09 Thread Chris Wilson
** Also affects: mountall (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: New = Opinion -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696130

[Bug 696130] Re: external harddisk not accessible by default

2011-01-09 Thread Chris Wilson
I've marked this as 'Opinion' as the automounting of each and every volume can easily be a one-way trip to borking important system files, including those on any Windows partitions on your drive that you may never need to access. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 696130] Re: external harddisk not accessible by default

2011-01-09 Thread phonixor
well i don't mind if it's not done at startup... but i have shortcuts on my desktop... and programs like transmissions, my shortcut may also request for files on those systems... i ask that once such a request is made... then it gets mounted... now you get a file does not exist or something

[Bug 696130] Re: external harddisk not accessible by default

2011-01-09 Thread leighman
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 637979 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/637979 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 637979 Removeable filesystems are not automatically mounted during boot. * You can subscribe to bug 637979 by following this link:

[Bug 696130] Re: external harddisk not accessible by default

2011-01-09 Thread Chris Wilson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 637979 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/637979 The problem with devising a solution for this is that there has to be some means by which external volumes are differentiated in some way, and the importance of having certain volumes mounted is going to

[Bug 696130] Re: external harddisk not accessible by default

2011-01-09 Thread Chris Wilson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 637979 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/637979 There's actually already been some discussion about this feature https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/343445 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 696130] Re: external harddisk not accessible by default

2011-01-09 Thread phonixor
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 637979 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/637979 *The bottom line is that it's better to let the user choose which volumes they want to have automounted, rather than attempting to make that decision for them, which will only end up upsetting a lot of