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jwm-art

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Registered: 2011-02-01

Posts: 87

Disallow mount of internal partitions but allow media in XFCE

Hi,

I do not want XFCE to allow users to mount partitions of internal hard drives, but do want users to be able to mount external media such as media cards or usb storage.

I have followed the instructions in the user guide to enable mounting of external partitions but it seems to lay open the internal partitions also. I have noticed the instructions for unhiding hidden partition types, but not the inverse. I am half tempted to try to knock together some kind of (udev||udisks(2)) rule to hide these partitions but not sure if this is the way to go or not.

Up until very recently when I decided it was time to make life easier for my partner I had been a resolute user of the mount command and nothing more.

Any pointers in the right direction appreciated.
Cheers,
James.

Additionally, something of interest, my user with membership of group "storage", sees a different set of partitions to the user who is not a member of storage.

Last edited by jwm-art (2014-06-17 11:26:02)

berbae

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From: France

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,304

Re: Disallow mount of internal partitions but allow media in XFCE

udisks2 with a wrapper will do what you want by default.