[SOLVED] Hide btrfs Devices in Nautilus

aexl · 2014-03-19 01:01:36

Hi,

I have several btrfs subvolumes mounted in my /home/user directory. The annoying thing about it, is that Nautilus lists all these subvolumes in the left panel as devices. Is there a way to avoid this behavior? I've already tried to create a file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-hide-disks.rules with the rule

KERNEL=="sdb3", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"

but this does not work for btrfs subvolumes.

Last edited by aexl (2014-03-21 03:56:34)

rh995 · 2014-03-19 23:44:58

there's some good stuff here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156371
But I really don't have much experience with nautilus.

aexl · 2014-03-21 03:55:59

Thank you very much! Using systemd *.mount Unit files to mount the subvolumes instead of mounting them in the /etc/fstab solved the problem for me.

NicoHood · 2018-09-22 08:57:10

Hi,
I got the same problem. I want to avoid using anything else than fstab. And the weird thing is, that my current archlinux install does NOT show those entries, while a new one does. And I dont know why.

I installed all packages from my current system on the new one (testing inside a vm), but that also did not help.

I compared the fstab entries, but they look quite identical:
Old:
UUID=c91384af-f210-48f5-ba19-d6415a1bb447 /home/arch/hackallthethings btrfs rw,relatime,nossd,space_cache,subvolid=2781,subvol=/@hackallthethings,subvol=@hackallthethings 0 0
New:
UUID=ba0cf405-6377-4dbb-a15a-f4e52fce689f /home/user/git btrfs rw,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=265,subvol=/subvolumes/custom/git,subvol=subvolumes/custom/git 0 0

I also tried the "x-gvfs-hide" mount option without success. And I also dont remember that I configured anything on my current system, I never had this issue. But the system is running for some time now, I originally started with xfce, now I am using gnome.

Does anyone know, what could cause the icons to show on one system, but not the other?

Edit: I found a bug report here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1712030

But it is working for me on one system for years!?

Edit2:
It appears that out of all entries ONE RANDOM is picked and ignored by the UI. looks like a bug to me. On my existing machines only one of such mounts is used, thatswhy it was not shown until now. The post linked above contains a link to the bugreport, that might help once it is fixed. I hope it will get fixed...

Last edited by NicoHood (2018-09-22 10:06:50)

JoveYu · 2025-11-04 01:59:52

You can use the mount option x-gvfs-hide in /etc/fstab to hide it in nautilus

/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext4   defaults,x-gvfs-hide       0     2

WorMzy · 2025-11-04 04:02:37

Mod note: closing this old solved thread.

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#1 2014-03-19 01:01:36

[SOLVED] Hide btrfs Devices in Nautilus

#2 2014-03-19 23:44:58

Re: [SOLVED] Hide btrfs Devices in Nautilus

#3 2014-03-21 03:55:59

Re: [SOLVED] Hide btrfs Devices in Nautilus

#4 2018-09-22 08:57:10

Re: [SOLVED] Hide btrfs Devices in Nautilus

#5 2025-11-04 01:59:52

Re: [SOLVED] Hide btrfs Devices in Nautilus

#6 2025-11-04 04:02:37

Re: [SOLVED] Hide btrfs Devices in Nautilus

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