Comment 3 for bug 390304

The problem was the drive didn't have a label. I had to install gparted and
umount the drive. Gparted allowed me to label the drive. When I brought it
back up it was mounted under the label.

Thanks!

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Martin Pitt <email address hidden> wrote:

> Actually, I used to have this problem in Karmic, but I cannot reproduce
> it any more.
>
> Your dk-disks dump shows that your device does not actually have a label
> (or that dk-disks fails to detect it). When you plugged in such a device
> in question, can you please also attach /var/log/kern.log, and give me
> the output of
>
> sudo blkid /dev/sd*
>
> ?
>
> ** Package changed: devicekit (Ubuntu) => gvfs (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> ** Package changed: gvfs (Ubuntu) => devicekit-disks (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: devicekit-disks (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> external usb disk drives are mounted under their UUID's
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390304
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “devicekit-disks” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> All my external hard-drives are mounted under the UUID for the drive as the
> name.
>
> System:
> Ubuntu 9.10 - Latest updates
>

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