hiding my paritions

[cowboyup6983]

i installed ubuntu just now, and its a dual boot with vista and ubuntu. i have 4 partions in vista and one with ubuntu. when you go to the "places" tab and it gives a drop down list of all my drives, can i hid all my vista partitions and only show my ubuntu partition.

[lha]

Create the file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/hide_vista_partitions.fdi with the following contents:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->

<deviceinfo version="0.2">

<device>
<match key="volume.uuid" string = "UUID_HERE">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</device>

<device>
<match key="volume.uuid" string = "ANOTHER_UUID_HERE">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</device>


</deviceinfo>


The blue bits above need to be changed to the uuids' of the partitions you want to hide; run

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
to find out what they are. Finally, restart hal with

sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart