Re: [PATCH] computer:/// should display all drives, not only user-visible ones

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 17:58 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:

> So what am I trying to say? I'm trying to say it makes sense to show all
> drives and their mountable file systems notwithstanding the user might
> be allowed to access them. Because if they're not privileged they should
> at least get a chance to see the drive is there (otherwise you get "My
> drive didn't show up! Is the computer broken?") along with an
> explanation why they can't access it maybe even with a possibility to
> auth for access.

I don't really follow your reasoning fully. I agree that users want to
see their OSX and/or windows mounts from linux, but I think you
over-empasize the "single user, dual boot, home desktop" usecase. In the
case of more traditional sysadmined unix setups (at universities and
whatnot) you'll have a bunch of bizzare mountpoints (nfs mounts, autofs
mounts, tmpfs, /usr, /home, extra drives/partitions, etc). 

If we were to show all these, then I think things would look pretty
confusing. I really think we need to hide a bunch of mountpoints. Some
mountpoints can probably be hardcoded
(like /proc, /tmp/, /home, /opt/*, /usr, and /boot), but we can never
think of all possibilities, so we should probably have a way to mark
them.

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