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Is there a specific mount point to use for a partition so that it would appear separately in the side pane?

I mean that it would appear separately in the left pane of PCManFM or Thunar the way windows-partition and external usb devices appear.

(I do not mean it being the /home partition. Nor it being something like /boot because this would not display it as a partition on the left pane but it would look as a folder with that address (see this question). Would (any) such partition be kept after reinstall? Are there possible mount points with any name after / - like /somename? I wonder whether what I ask here is possible. I guess this question is very contaminated by the Windows experience.)

Here's a picture of the left pane in pcmanfm with the Windows partition (not mounted yet)

left pane of file manager

P.S. This question is not about changing my present partitions, I just want to know if that is possible. I'm in Lubuntu 12.10.

Edit after answer and comments:

I have an answer+comments saying that the partition should not have a mount point specified in order to achieve the asked result. How to create a partition (whether during or after install procedure) without setting the mount-point?

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Are only non-linux partitions (Windows and external drives) displayed as such in the left pane of PCManFM and Thunar?

No. Format a USB flash drive as Ext3/4 and you'll see it appear there too. If you would have another partition on your hard drive without any mount point specified in /etc/fstab it would appear there too.

The way the file manager mounts and manages the mounts as shown in the sidebar, has nothing to do with the system mounts. It's about what is mounting it. Using

gvfs-mount -l

you can see which are already managed by your desktop environment. This answer and the manpage of gvfs-mount will explain quite well how to mount filesystems the command-line way the same way as your file manager does that programmatically.

GVFS uses FUSE, an user space level filesystem approach, rather than in-kernel. It's about who manages the mounts on your system. The regular GUI file manager does not manage the system mounts (cat /proc/mounts) by design.

Would (any) such partition be kept after reinstall?

Completely unrelated. This is an option in the installer.

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