Hide udesired devices in file manager

jorgedcc · 2017-10-07 18:58:19

Hello,

First of all, thank you all for your help. I really admire your desire to help others. I am somewhat unexperienced in Arch Linux, so maybe this can be fixed relatively easy.

I couldn't find a topic where this problem was mentioned so I created this post.

The issue I have is that my file managers, Nautilus in Gnome and Nemo in Cinnamon, are showing me a strange list of devices on the sidebar that they didn't show before. The list seems to contain my mouse, webcam, and usb ports. I believe this was caused by something I did, because the file managers don't show this list when I open them as root.

Because this is happening in Gnome and Cinnamon, I thought that maybe it is not related specifically with Nautilus.

This is the list of devices:
8087 0024
8087 0024
8087 07da
EHCI Host Controller
EHCI Host Controller
Usb Mouse
Webcam SC10HDD12636P
xHCI Host Controller
xHCI Host Controller

Thank you in advance,

Slithery · 2017-10-07 19:33:24

Welcome to the forums jorgedcc

Can you post the contents of your /etc/fstab (inbetween [⁣code] [⁣/code] tags please).

graysky · 2017-10-07 20:25:36

# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/99-hide-partitions.rules
KERNEL=="sda1", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sda2", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sda3", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sda4", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sda5", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sda6", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="nvme0n1p4", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"

Last edited by graysky (2017-10-07 20:25:55)

jorgedcc · 2017-10-07 22:10:59

slithery wrote:

Welcome to the forums jorgedcc
Can you post the contents of your /etc/fstab (inbetween [⁣code] [⁣/code] tags please).

Hello thank you for your quick reply. I don't see any tags in the file. This is everything in /etc/fstab

# /dev/sda2 UUID=ba8accc3-92d3-48e1-986a-4847f3bd997b
PARTUUID=225e916c-853d-4501-a9d6-37774fa8ad1b / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1

# /dev/sda1 UUID=BA9D-CA49
PARTUUID=45516105-af6b-45a2-a813-4f5eaef156f0 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 2

# /dev/sda3 UUID=e52abb33-c43d-417e-9836-857db4589ec9
PARTUUID=ab0efac1-07da-40b4-ba06-be9aa0c205da /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2

# /dev/sda4 UUID=665902be-68eb-4099-a563-97bc8e093c74
PARTUUID=544eb3f0-5ccb-4365-a968-04ded89c0a67 none swap defaults 0 0

jorgedcc · 2017-10-07 22:13:27

graysky wrote:

# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/99-hide-partitions.rules
KERNEL=="sda1", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sda2", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sda3", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sda4", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sda5", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sda6", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="nvme0n1p4", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"

This file doesn't exist in my system, this is the output of ls -l in /etc/udev/rules.d
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 144 Oct 4 20:57 69-libmtp.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5554 Dec 23 2013 80-canon_mfp.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2135 Jul 16 2013 81-canonij_prn.rules

Should I create it?

Thanks

jasonwryan · 2017-10-07 22:18:58

You add the code tags to your post; they don't appear by themselves: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

loqs · 2017-10-07 22:23:11

As the devices being displayed are not partitions udisks should not need to be told to ignore them.

jorgedcc · 2017-10-07 22:29:29

slithery wrote:

Welcome to the forums jorgedcc
Can you post the contents of your /etc/fstab (inbetween [⁣code] [⁣/code] tags please).

Sorry

# /dev/sda2 UUID=ba8accc3-92d3-48e1-986a-4847f3bd997b
PARTUUID=225e916c-853d-4501-a9d6-37774fa8ad1b    /             ext4          rw,relatime,data=ordered    0 1
# /dev/sda1 UUID=BA9D-CA49
PARTUUID=45516105-af6b-45a2-a813-4f5eaef156f0    /boot         vfat          rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro    0 2
# /dev/sda3 UUID=e52abb33-c43d-417e-9836-857db4589ec9
PARTUUID=ab0efac1-07da-40b4-ba06-be9aa0c205da    /home         ext4          rw,relatime,data=ordered    0 2
# /dev/sda4 UUID=665902be-68eb-4099-a563-97bc8e093c74
PARTUUID=544eb3f0-5ccb-4365-a968-04ded89c0a67    none          swap          defaults      0 0

V1del · 2017-10-07 23:25:14

The file graysky posted was an example of his own usecase you can use to infer the correct configuration yourself. Copying it verbatim is unlikely to give you the desired results.

loqs · 2017-10-07 23:28:53

Udisks#Hide_selected_partitions This still does not answer the question why udisks would treat usb devices as partitions.

jorgedcc · 2017-10-24 14:51:55

Hello everyone,

I've had some busy weeks at work and couldn't do much more. I did read more about udev but didn't find something that solved this.

I appreciate the time you took to help me out, I can use everything without problems so I'm not in a hurry to fix it. But if I have problems, maybe I'm going to reinstall or install a distro that is more newbie friendly so I don't mess things up again.

Thank you all,

Arch Linux

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Hide udesired devices in file manager

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