This is a usability bug. Somebody looking for their hard drive in "places" will not be inclined to search a "removable media" folder. I can confirm this behaviour and I think it should be forwarded upstream and/or fixed in Ubuntu by renaming the subgroup to "Storage Media" or similar.
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- In Gnome's Places, my hard drive partitions are classified as Removable Media https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324021 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