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[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: unity
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: unity
       Status: New => Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986269

Title:
  Unable to open a folder for 10 GB Filesystem", "No application is
  registered as handling this file... or Nautilus pops browser when
  partition is mounted in bash script

Status in Unity:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I first noticed this behaviour in Ubuntu 11.10. When I run my bash
  script that mounts partitions on my hard drive (e.g /dev/sda5),
  Nautilus pops up with a browser window. This is an illogical action,
  since I've not 'inserted a drive', it's already there, and it's just
  been manually mounted. This Nautilus action will interfere with the
  scripts operation since, when the script tries to unmount the drive
  (rapidly) it finds that Nautilus is still busy with it, producing it's
  browser window.

  If I run chmod 700 on the mountpoint prior to mounting (root only
  access), then I get a popup message stating: "Unable to open a folder
  for 10 GB Filesystem", "No application is registered as handling this
  file". This is because the mountpoint is not accessible to the logged
  in user.

  You wouldn't expect this if you mount a partition from the terminal -
  and for the most part this is correct (Nautilus does nothing), but not
  all the time. I've managed to trigger Nautilus to pop just with a
  simple terminal mount.

  I have a workaround in my bash script that creates a udev rule and
  runs udevadm trigger to hide the partition, but this seems extreme. I
  believe it's a bug in Unity(?) (maybe Nautilus?) in how it responds to
  the signal that a partition has been mounted.

  Please see this for complete details and discussion of possible
  solutions (and the bash script code):
  http://askubuntu.com/questions/121569/prevent-nautilus-showing-
  partition-mounted-in-bash-script

  I understand you can prevent Nautilus responding to inserted drives
  etc., but this is definitely not the case here - the drive is already
  there, just the partition is being mounted.

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