Hi, thanks for the reply. There seems to be at least two ways to mount partitions automatically. One is the hotplug system mounts partitions, the other is it the partition is mentioned in fstab and gets mounted during boot.
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem, I booted the system from a /boot partition that was on an USB device. 3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible). After boot the /boot partition was mounted because it is mentioned in fstab (uuid), the other partitions were mounted like hotplug devices. Then I wanted to remove the USB device. (I was not aware of /boot being mounted differently) So I right-clicked on one of the icons that stood for a partitions that resided on the USB device to have it unmounted. (And with it all the other partitions on the same device.) (It was not the /boot partition.) This gave an error message that I don't remember any more, but it did not point me to the /boot partition at all. Only after inspecting the output from mount did I notice the mounted /boot partition and could I unmount it on the console. So the error message I saw was probably related to the hotplugging system not being able to unmount the /boot partition. 2. the behavior you expected I'm not sure. The wish I formulated earlier was to display all partitions that reside on the same device in a subfolder on the desktop. For one, that way there would not be so much mess on the desktop with multiple hotplug disks attatched that contain several partitions. And second, I might have right-clicked on the folder (diskdevice) to unmount all partitions, and even if the error message did not help me, I might have noticed the /boot partition still mounted inside the folder afterwards. 4. you mention an error message; what is the exact wording? I'm sorry I don't remember. But I hope I could clarify what the problem was, even though it said somthing different. ** Changed in: thunar (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- error behaviour with multiple partions on one disk https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252336 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs