Hide drives / partitions in nautilus places.

[t.rei]

Hi,

I have quite a lot of testing operating systems installed. Some with their own home or boot partition.

Now my places section in nautilus is an utter MESS.

I was not able to find any working solution how to hide these partitions. Can anyone please help me out?

thanks,

t.rei

[Grenage]

I believe that anything mounted under /media is automatically listed in Nautilus, but anything mounted elsewhere is not.

For example, tend to mount things I don't need listed, under /mnt.

[t.rei]

Thats the thing, the partitions arent mounted. As a matter of fact they arent even in fstab.

So I just have a very long list of not-mounted-partitions under places.

Somewhere these must be detected, no? Probably any 'potentially mountable partition' just gets found and listed.

[Grenage]

This looks like it might cover it.

[t.rei]

yes, I have tried that. Unfortunately it didn't work. Maybe it's not HAL anymore, that is responsible? That post is from 2007 after all.

I did use google and forum search before posting.

[Grenage]

Touché! I'm so used to searching and posting links to solutions on common problems, and I'm very tired.

I have no media to test this with, but I will do at work tomorrow. If you haven't got a solution by then, I'll dabble and see what I can come up with.

[t.rei]

cool, thanks. I will try no longer than another 30 minutes tonight. If I should find out how to do it, I'll definately post.

[t.rei]

Well, I haven't solved the problem.
I have lessened it by removing 3 alternate linux systems (*sniff* my playgrounds).

On the other hand, I now have tons of diskspace.

So the problem remains and I'm still looking for a solution, in order to get my working desktop 'just perfect'.

If any gnome-dev should happen to read this: I think the intuitive part would be a 'Computer -> rightclick-on-drive -> properties -> show in nautilus places [x]' kind of thing. Or at least a flag like that accessible via gconf-editor.

[mcduck]

Thats the thing, the partitions arent mounted. As a matter of fact they arent even in fstab.

So I just have a very long list of not-mounted-partitions under places.

Somewhere these must be detected, no? Probably any 'potentially mountable partition' just gets found and listed.

Then add them to fstab, set the mount point to somewhere else than in /media, and add "noauto" to mount options.

That way the partitions won't show in Nautilus, and aren't mounted automatically on boot.

[t.rei]

Wonderfull! that does it!

Thanks a lot.

This is not really intuitive, but it works.