Comment 37 for bug 107668

Hi fellers,

To baby those who are onlookers in desperate search of a solution (i'm running Hardy)...

open a terminal.
type "gconf-editor"
click your way to "/system/storage/volumes/_org_freedesktop_Hal_devices_..."
you should now see mount point, and its value

You can do something here and get your drive to work, yes. However, if you have programs with calls to that drive before you got a bunch of wacko underscores (_), you'd probably like to return your drive to its original mount point. If you dont, click the value field, and just erase the text. Plug your drive back in and you are golden. exit out of your terminal and rock on. if you do want to get things back to their original state...

In my /media directory existed:
/CDback
/CDback_
/CDback__
/Mint
/Mint_
/Mint__

In my drive, I have two partitions. I would like to see them always mount to /CDback and /Mint.

Be careful here. I did a quick "gksudo thunar" (or gksudo nautilus), and erased ONLY those mount directories which were related to my drive. you dont want to erase your standard hard drive's mounting point, or your CD-ROM etc etc etc (sda,hda,cdrom,cdrom0,etc). Many a folk will likely scold me for even mentioning doing this. a sudo rm MOUNT-DIRECTORY would suffice for each sloppy underscored directory as well. return to gconf-editor and remove the text from the 'value' field.

exit, plug back in...BAM! brilliant.

Thank these brainiacs above.