I can't see devices on Nautilus since last update (12.04)

Question

After updating 12.04, my HDD partitions and USB storage devices was removed from the devices list on Nautilus Sidebar, only the "floppy0" is there.

I can see all of them with Disk Utility. I can mount them and add them to computer list on Nautilus (not to device list).

I can't see any device in /media, only "floppy", "floppy0" and "cdrom" folders.

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fstab file:

> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
> # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
> # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass> proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
> # / was on /dev/sda3 during installation UUID=ec9a8bbb-4cf0-4599-bf0e-85f7e3de6302 /               ext4   
> errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation UUID=88002a18-0f7f-4e7a-87b7-ef8e9f6388c8 none            swap    sw  
> 0       0 /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto   
> rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

Answer 1

You can mount your partitions automatically on startup.

A very good tutorial on Ubuntu wiki on how to achieve it is given here.

You can also edit your /etc/fstab file, however it is more complex and generally not recommended if you've less experience.

/etc/fstab contains information of where your partitions and storage devices should be mounted and how.

The Ubuntu wiki also explains how you can edit the fstab file: here.

Additional References: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

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The program that causes the nautilus to show the devices is gvfs-gdu-volume.

Check if it's running:

sudo ps -e | grep gvfs-gdu-volume

I got the following output:

1983 ?        00:00:00 gvfs-gdu-volume

If not, reinstall the package gvfs:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall gvfs

Answer 2

I am sure you are running nautilus in root or else you logged in as root. open terminal and check whether root@"name" is written that means you are logged in as root