Icon from mounted partition always appears in desktop

[ressaw]

Hi, I set my fstab to auto mount one of my partitions in ~/Music.
It works perfectly, but there is always the icon in the desktop pointing to my partition with the name "40 GB FileSystem". The idea behind mounting it automatically to ~./Music was for the partition to be transparent to me...
Is there a way to remove that icon from the desktop and from the Places menu?

[alem189]

Open a terminal:

$gconf-editor

go to
apps > nautilus > desktop > volumes_visible (unselect) to remove *ALL* volume icons.

[ressaw]

Open a terminal:

$gconf-editor

go to
apps > nautilus > desktop > volumes_visible (unselect) to remove *ALL* volume icons.

Thanks for the quick answer,

Does that affect network locations opened too?
It's just that icon that I don't want to see because is automounted every time I boot is there a way to just mark that one not to be shown?...

[alem189]

Well, another thing I think would work is mounting the partition in /mnt, and the symbolically linking to ~/Music to it. But maybe that won't work. You may find more useful information in this thread, which I got my first post from.

[hhh]

Does that affect network locations opened too?
It's just that icon that I don't want to see because is automounted every time I boot is there a way to just mark that one not to be shown?...

AFAIK that shouldn't affect networks, just removable volumes (USB drive, CD, DVD, etc...)

[ressaw]

Is there no other way? Just to disable THAT mounted partition not to show?

This is my fstab:

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda5 /home/ressaw/Music ext4 defaults 0 2

As you can see, There are two hard drives. The one that is mounted in /home doesn't show in the desktop, only sda5. It makes no sense. Is there any difference between them?

[hhh]

Sorry, I have experience with multiple OSes on one drive, but no experience with one OS on multiple drives. I hope someone else can help you.

[ressaw]

Sorry to do this, but I think there should be an easy answer for this
*bump*

[truant]

I've just done this exact same thing for my Media partition. The only fix I've found is to mount the partition in /mnt and symlink it from my home directory.

My fstab (edited for clarity):

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
/dev/sda1       /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/sda5       /home           ext4    defaults        0       2
/dev/sda6       /mnt/meeja     vfat    uid=1000,gid=1000,utf8        0       2

After editing that, I did:

~$ sudo umount /home/truant/Media
~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/meeja
~$ sudo chmod 777 /mnt/meeja
~$ sudo mount -a

To remove the old mount, create the new one, set it's permissions and mount the filesystem to it.

Then just:

~$ ln -s /mnt/meeja/ /home/truant/Media

To create the link in my home directory. My media partition now doesn't show up on either my Desktop or Nautilus's sidebar.

Hope this helps. Ask if anything is unclear.

[ressaw]

Perfect. It works.
Thank you very much,

but just for the sake of knowledge, what is the difference between mounting to the directory it was before and mounting it to /mnt/xxxx