In Edgy, behaviour has changed. When mounting on /mnt, icons etc. do not appear, even when it's indicated in Nautilus settings (show volumes). When mounting on /media, icons appear. This is changed from Dapper, because in Dapper it doesn't matter if you're mounting to /mnt or /media, icons ALWAYS appears. With this new behaviour, you can to circumvent the problem (without an extra Nautilus setting), just mount the volumes to /mnt if you don't want to appear them on the desktop.
See: "Volume mount not visible" https://launchpad.net/bugs/68944 "Sebastien Bacher: that's the indended behaviour then. That might not be ideal though,..." -- Enable show network volumes. https://launchpad.net/bugs/35147 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
