Comment 1 for bug 212028

Don't know if this is a bug as such, more of a wishlist item perhaps? The wish being that Xubuntu liveCDs should detect internal hard drive partitions and iconify them in the gui, allowing the user to graphically mount and then browse them.

If I put an Ubuntu (i.e. Gnome) liveCD in my machine, click on Places > Computer, Nautilus opens a window containing an icon for the partition on my machine's internal hdd on which my regular, "everyday" version of Ubuntu is installed. Clicking on this icon gives me the option to mount this, which in turn allows me to browse the entire installed filesystem on this internal hdd using Nautilus. Ubuntu liveCDs from Feisty onwards have enabled this procedure. (As I recall, the original Warty liveCD allowed graphical access to internal partitions - by an icon on the desktop if I remember correctly - but such access was not available from liveCDs from Hoary-Edgy inclusive.)

However, even the latest daily build of the Xubuntu Hardy liveCD does not enable the above gui-based procedure - as belovedmonster discovered when trying to access Windows partitions using the beta version.

What makes this odd is that I *can* access the internal hdd partition on my machine using another xfce-based liveCD - ZenwalkLive 5.0. This would appear to automount the partition under /mnt, which I can then browse graphically using Thunar (by clicking on the /mnt icon in the 'Filesystem' window - this icon being slightly differently from the rest, indicating I guess that something of interest is indeed mounted there).

So why should Xubuntu not allow graphical access to the contents of internal partitions?

N.B. this is not necessarily a request that Xubuntu should automount them as ZenwalkLive does - merely that it should match the functionality of Gnome-based Ubuntu liveCDs in allowing the user to choose to mount them graphically.