Single USB HDD shows up twice?

Question

I've got an external USB hard drive, but for some reason, it shows up twice on the desktop and places, which does not look pleasant, as they point to the same place.  I'm using Gnome.  Also, on a side note, I noticed that my iPod will show up under Places if I open nautilus, but it doesn't automount anymore.  HAL is running, but I don't know why it's doing this...
Here's my /etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/disk/by-uuid/f5a72fe9-54e0-402c-a3af-efa1486dfbf3 /private ext3 noauto,user,rw,suid,dev,exec,async 1 0
The reason I'm mounting by UUID is because if I have my iPod still plugged in while rebooting, it'll mess up the order and the hard drive will be hdc1 as opposed to hdb1.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

1.) Check your kernel messages ( dmesg ).  Is it being identified as two devices?  (I doubt it; so I'll move on ...)
2.) "mount" shouldn't allow you to have a single filesystem accessible at two different mountpoints.  However, I'd check /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab anyway.
3.) This sounds the most relevant to your case: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5519?pagenum=2 .  Seems like a udev malfunction (or, possibly, the way Gnome reads information about the devices through HAL).   There are several workarounds listed there, but the solution by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) is to write some udev rules.  He posted several, the first of which was broken.
You might also want to look at this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL