Re: [SD4L-user] Odd behavior with Scramdisk 2.0-2 on Ubuntu 9.10

[Stewart M. <smm...@gm...>]

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 11:12 -0400, Stewart Millen wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm reporting some odd behavior with Scramdisk on my laptop (a Dell
> Inspiron 1525) using Ubuntu 9.10 (2.6.31-22-generic kernel). 
> 
> When I mount my encrypted drives, sometimes immediately upon mounting
> the drive gets opened under nautilus, and sometimes it does not (this
> seems random). Secondly, sometimes I see the drive appear on the desktop
> using its file name, as it previously always had (as in "myencrypted
> file 1") but now sometimes it is given a name by its size (as in "2.1 GB
> filesystem"). Finally, whereas it used to mount the drives on the desk
> arranged in order they were mounting, now the placement seems more
> random.
> 
> Everything works acceptably and there's no real loss in functionality.
> But I figured that I'd put this out to see if anyone else is
> experiencing this behavior.

I found out also, that additional drives were being added to the Gnome
menus under "places"--drives with the both the file name ("myencrypted
file 1") and another entry for the file size ("2.1 GB").

I also discovered that ext3 volumes were not affected, but my FAT32 ones
were. Accordingly, I created new volumes that were all ext3 and
transferred my files from the FAT32 containers to them. By doing this,
the problem has vanished. I've not checked yet to see if other types of
filesystems are affected.

Stewart