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#1 2009-12-02 18:51:44

jeffkn
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From: CA
Registered: 2008-06-04
Posts: 8

All my partitions show up as removable drives on desktop?

Just got done installing a fresh build for someone with Xfce4 (even have icons).  The system has one large RAID and all the partions are showing up on the desktop as removable drives.  Bet I'm not the first to post this question, but I couldn't find an answer after several searches.  Is this normal or can I fix it since none of the partitions\drives are removable?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff

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#2 2009-12-02 21:10:40

karol
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Registered: 2009-05-06
Posts: 25,440

Re: All my partitions show up as removable drives on desktop?

I think they're just icons, nothing to worry about. Be brave and talk to upstream about it.

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#3 2009-12-02 22:34:46

Gusar
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Registered: 2009-08-25
Posts: 3,605

Re: All my partitions show up as removable drives on desktop?

Gentoo by default installs this file: /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi
It's content:

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

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
  <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
    <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="false">
      <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
    </match>
  </match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

It should be quite self-explanatory - it says to ignore volumes of devices that aren't removable/hotpluggable. Restart HAL after creating the file. You can also put it in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/

It's funny, at the Gentoo forums just today there was talk about having local partitions listed in PCManFM and I advised to remove that file.

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