Re: mounting local partitions

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

MArk Finlay <sisob eircom net> writes:

> Simple question:
> 
> Does anyone actually use nautilus to mount user mountable partitions on
> local hard drives? 
> 
> Is it really a useful feature to have?
> 
> I never use it and and find it hard to imagine a use for it. It makes
> sense on BeOS when you are running as root and nothing is mounted by
> default, but not really on linux. To me it just complicates nautilus'
> interaction with 'real' removable media.

Are you sure you aren't seeing the functionality there to handle 
floppies?  (You can't do of auto-mounting of floppies, because
there is no reasonable media detection for PC floppy hardware)

Regards,
                                        Owen