Non-removable vs removable?

[Marek Kozlowski]

:-)
>> A new thing under 4.8. Is it a bug (for bugzilla) or a feature:
>>
>> Under 4.6 I was able to have icons on my desktop for my _removable_
>> drives (pendrive, USB disk etc) but no icons for partitions on
>> non-removable ones.
>> Under 4.8 I can have icons for all partitions on all drives or none.
>> Unfortunately I have 4 disks, approx. 8 partitions each... I'd like to
>> have only icons for really _removable_ drives. I'm not sending it to
>> bugzilla, because I'm not sure if it is a bug. Maybe it's due to
>> udev/polkit change?
> 
> This could be caused by your udev setup; I only get removables in
> Thunar and xfdesktop.

I have the same under both Gentoo and Arch, x86 as well as x86_64 so it
doesn't seem to be distro-related.
Moreover, for all those partitions on my HDDs after mounting I have the
option 'Eject'. What?!

Best regards,
Marek