Mounted partitions are not shown in the desktop

[sonnet]

I installed Xubuntu 11.10 on my desktop.
On live mode it showed my partitions on the desktop as icons.
But once installed the mounted partitions are not shown into the desktop,
also they are not shown on the left side of Thunar.
I tried to find some setting to change it but I couldn't find anything regarding it in Thunar options.

[nshiell]

How did u mount the partitions?

[LewisTM]

The Xfce desktop or places menu will only list what they recognize as "removable media" i.e. external drives. Those would be user mountable and found by default in /media

From the perspective of the LiveCD, hard disk partitions are external because the OS is run from CD or USB.

For a hard disk-based OS, partitions are internal, they are mounted as / and /home and whatnot. You can control that by editing (with care) the /etc/fstab file. Stuff like CD media, flashdrives and USB HDD will be shown on the desktop. Also, partitions NOT present in /etc/fstab will show up on the desktop for manual mounting.

[sonnet]

How did u mount the partitions?

I mounted them during installations all as /media/...

LewisTM : thanks for your explanation

[nshiell]

What is the output of the

df
command?

[sonnet]

This is the output of the command DF

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 133632328 5446584 121397600 5% /
udev 4080288 4 4080284 1% /dev
tmpfs 1635280 988 1634292 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 4088200 88 4088112 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda3 1356416624 240558196 1114491244 18% /media/Media
/dev/sdb1 346428076 672336 328158144 1% /home
/dev/sdb2 351522036 33758424 314247948 10% /media/VM01
/dev/sdb3 387848572 106724532 279922880 28% /media/Documents
/dev/sdb4 822999684 101459356 720690724 13% /media/Data
/dev/sdc1 267974708 8580228 256714396 4% /media/VM02
/dev/sdc2 911045748 204740 901727728 1% /media/Workspace
/dev/sdc4 774143996 108821604 665322392 15% /media/Winstorage

[LewisTM]

The fact that the partitions are mounted in /media doesn't mean that they will show on the desktop.
If these partitions are found in fstab entries, they will be considered internal by Thunar.

For the sake of the argument, would you mind providing the contents of your /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files?

To see all available mountable partitions on a side pane, you may try PCManFM file manager. Gigolo may also be helpful.

[sonnet]

The fact that the partitions are mounted in /media doesn't mean that they will show on the desktop.
If these partitions are found in fstab entries, they will be considered internal by Thunar.

For the sake of the argument, would you mind providing the contents of your /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files?

To see all available mountable partitions on a side pane, you may try PCManFM file manager. Gigolo may also be helpful.

Yeah they are seen as internal (I thought it was an issue or something that could be solved because I was used to nautilus and because on live mode they appeared on the desktop, but your explanation cleared any doubt), and I have no problems of any kind. Just it is (imo) convenient to see them on the desktop and particularly on the side panel when you navigate.
Along with the tab features is the only thing which i think thunar needs.
I considered pcfmman as alternative, but i think I'll live with Thunar as right now my desktop is extremely stable and I don't want mess around (I also doubt pcfmman is as much stable as thunar, although this might be a false myth).
I know it sounds lame, but i don't wanna risk to waste too much time behind it