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



> > 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.
> > 
> 
> We should only display "/media/*" and "/mnt/*"
> 
> Xavier.

Please, let it be configurable! There are people who prefer
mounting media under "/" (like "/cdrom", etc.)

P.T.

-- 
Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>



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