Hide Unmounted Partitions

[Akavashi]

Hey guys,
Just installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu Karmic Koala! OZZIE, OZZIE, OZZIE!
Now, my only problem is that I have an unmounted Windows 7 System Reserved Disk (dev/sda2), the unmounted main Windows partition (dev/sda3) and the floppy drive showing in Gnome, ready to be mounted.
How would I hide them, to stop myself accidentally mounting them?

I've tried blacklisting the floppy http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=616153 - and hiding the windows partitions http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=905859. But by my understanding, Karmic has moved away from HAL and are now using DeviceKit and so the latter is outdated.

So any help, would be greatly appreciated! Cheers guys!

[ezanium]

under Karmic 9.10, HAL is replaced by DeviceKit-Disk for block devices.
you have to set the "presentation hide" property on the block device you want to hide in Nautilus for example.

based on /lib/udev/rules.d/95-devkit-disks.rules, create a file under /etc/udev/rules.d/ to set it.

here is an example:
$ sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/hide-partitions.rules

# we only care about block devices
ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="block", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"
KERNEL=="loop*|ram*", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"

################################################## ############################

# Partitions which desktops should not display
ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="ntfs|vfat", \
ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}=="VISTA|HP_TOOLS", \
ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

################################################## ############################

LABEL="hide_partitions_end"

review block disk information with:
$ devkit-disks --dump | less

[Akavashi]

Hey Hey, cheers for the help Ezanium,
I've got it all working but...
Now my dvd drive doesn't show up :S lol >.< *slaps own face* I looked at the 95-devkit-disks.rules file in lib, and inserted my own code to hide the Floppy.

It does hide my two partitions (52 GB Filesystem, System Reserved) and the floppy drive... just also the DVD drive... :/

As shown here:

# we only care about block devices
ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="block", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"
KERNEL=="loop*|ram*", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"

################################################## ############################

# Floppy Drive which should not display
KERNEL=="fd0", ENV{ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY}="1", ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

# Partitions which desktops should not display
ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="ntfs|vfat",
ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}=="52 GB Filesystem",
ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

# Partitions which desktops should not display
ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="ntfs|vfat",
ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}=="System Reserved",
ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

################################################## ############################

LABEL="hide_partitions_end"

Any Ideas? Cheers, sorry to be a bummer

[Akavashi]

Okay, well... Looked further into the 95-devkit file like before, and found that you can just hide partitions and devices etc directly through their partition mount location (eg /dev/sda*)
So here's the code that I used to hide my partitions and the floppy drive completely from gnome:

# we only care about block devices
ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="block", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"
KERNEL=="loop*|ram*", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"

################################################## ############################

# Floppy Drive which should not display
KERNEL=="fd0", ENV{ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY}="1", ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

# Partition sda2 that we want to hide from gnome
KERNEL=="sda2", ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

# Partition sda3 that we want to hide from gnome
KERNEL=="sda3", ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

################################################## ############################

LABEL="hide_partitions_end"

Cheers for the help again Ezanium! Thought I'd post up the code that I figured out with your help, just for others... I'll try and mark as solved (kinda a newbie to posting on this forum...)

[Kartinka]

Okay, well... Looked further into the 95-devkit file like before, and found that you can just hide partitions and devices etc directly through their partition mount location (eg /dev/sda*)
So here's the code that I used to hide my partitions and the floppy drive completely from gnome:

# we only care about block devices
ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="block", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"
KERNEL=="loop*|ram*", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"

################################################## ############################

# Floppy Drive which should not display
KERNEL=="fd0", ENV{ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY}="1", ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

# Partition sda2 that we want to hide from gnome
KERNEL=="sda2", ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

# Partition sda3 that we want to hide from gnome
KERNEL=="sda3", ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

################################################## ############################

LABEL="hide_partitions_end"

Cheers for the help again Ezanium! Thought I'd post up the code that I figured out with your help, just for others... I'll try and mark as solved (kinda a newbie to posting on this forum...)

Hey Community ,

I'm new here and new by using Ubuntu. in the last days, I tried to install Ubuntu 9.10 and make some settings there. No long time later, i found the first problems for myself...

I have the following partitions on my only hard drive in my Laptop.

40 GB Vista Systempartition
20 GB Ubuntu / (root) Partition
2 GB Ubuntu SWAP
10 GB Ubuntu /home Partition
30 GB Filepartition for Vistasystem
70 GB Filepartition for Vistasystem
80 GB Filepartition for Vistasystem

While i tried to seperate both Systems of each other I found this Thread. Because I will seperate them that
I will see nothing of Windows in Ubuntu and otherwise.
I tried it with the written things in this Thread and everything happend good, I was able to hide the Partitions.

But now I have some little questions.

First question: Are the partitions hidden from the whole system with that code or only from gnome / nautilus?!

Second question is for understanding the code:

What are the following words do, and where can i find a description or manual with them?!

ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="block", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"
KERNEL=="loop*|ram*", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"

ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

I searched but nowwhere i found something about that?! But anyway I have to found or? Because how to know something abaut add|change or loop*|ram* to write that code when it's nowwhere to read?!

[Akavashi]

Hey Kartinka,
Yup, you're quite right, they are hidden away from Gnome/Nautilus... as you can still see them in the Disk Utility located under Administration.
And the code... I have no idea about the ACTION, SUBSYSTEM and that KERNEL would search through the kernel for hardware.
And the ENV{} command envelops a certain tag to that hardware...
Those are my first impressions of what those commands do though, so maybe someone will clarify for you later... Hope that kinda helps, couldn't find a decent guide on the interwebs except for this manual http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit-disks/.

[pt123]

this is awesome I have been looking for a way to do this, as I am currently on Jaunty which uses hal.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1216790

[BrowneR]

Second question is for understanding the code:

What are the following words do, and where can i find a description or manual with them?!

ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="block", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"
KERNEL=="loop*|ram*", GOTO="hide_partitions_end"

This is explained on the udev manpage:

man udev

ENV{DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

This is explained in the device kit man page:

man DeviceKit-disks

Hope that helps you out as I just had to look all that up myself!

Chris

[Morbius1]

Good lord,

Now, my only problem is that I have an unmounted Windows 7 System Reserved Disk (dev/sda2), the unmounted main Windows partition (dev/sda3) and the floppy drive showing in Gnome, ready to be mounted.
How would I hide them, to stop myself accidentally mounting them?

sudo mkdir /Windows/sda2
sudo mkdir /Windows/sda3

Add the following lines in /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda2 /Windows/sda2 ntfs defaults,umask=777 0 0
/dev/sda3 /Windows/sda3 ntfs defaults,umask=777 0 0

It won't show up under "Places" in nautilus, it won't show up on the desktop, and with umask=777 not even root will be able to touch it.

Badda - Bing.

You got me on the floppy. Don't put a floppy in it would be my first suggestion.

[Akavashi]

Yeah... that's the thing, I don't have a floppy drive lol
My bios is reporting that I have one for some reason though, and i can't waver it's little decision on that...
And cheers for the easier way to do this Morbius1
P.S. Happy new year!