Description of problem: Some external program, for example my hmount, need to list all mountable partitions on removable drives, skeeping fixed. It was used key "volume.ignore" to separate removable/fixed partitions. Now info for any type of partitions is nearly the same. And output mix all partitions. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.5.10-0.git20070925 hal-info-20070725-1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect USB drive with partitions. 2. lshal > lshal.txt 3. compare output for USB partition and HDD partition. Actual results: The is no key to separate USB/HDD partitions. Expected results: Must be a key "removable". Not only for some of parent device, but for every partition/FS. Additional info:
Created attachment 212231 [details] part of lshal output for USB
Created attachment 212241 [details] Part of lshal output for HDD
See the hal spec (in the hal-docs package) and use sth like storage.hotpluggable. Also, questions like these should be asked upstream.