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csat

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From: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 93

Volumes are shown on desktop [Resolved]

Hi

I am new Arch Linux user.  I have several partitions and all are shown to my desktop.  I can unmount it by right clicking on each of them and choose unmount but when I boot all of them are again shown.  I was thinking that it should be configured at /etc/fstab but there is none information there regarding this issue.  How can I fix it so that I would only mount/access the volumes whenever I want and not keeping them already mounted?

PS.  I search before posting and found something related to this topic but the link is outdated and the message is not there anymore.

Thanks for your time.
csat

Last edited by csat (2008-08-08 16:11:49)

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nopper

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Re: Volumes are shown on desktop [Resolved]

add noauto in the options of fstab for the selected partition that you want to mount manually

Here I've an external hd that i mount manually. In /etc/fstab I've respectively:

UUID=********-****-****-****-************ /home/p2p     reiserfs        noauto,noatime 0 0

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pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

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Re: Volumes are shown on desktop [Resolved]

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

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<!-- 
  The following shows how to hint gnome-volume-manager and other programs 
  that honor the storage.automount_enabled_hint to not mount non-removable
  media.
-->

  <device>
    <match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
      <match key="storage.removable" bool="false">
        <merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>
      </match>
    </match>
  </device>

</deviceinfo>

Put this in  /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi
restart hal and gnome, or reboot the computer.
This will keep gnome-volume-manager from mounting fixed hard drives automatically.

btw, if you mount drives under /media they will show on the desktop, mount under /mnt and they will not be shown on the desktop.

Last edited by pelle.k (2008-08-08 14:27:03)

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tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

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Re: Volumes are shown on desktop [Resolved]

There is also an option in gconf-editor.  Look at apps/nautilus/desktop.  Also, search for volume_manager.

csat

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From: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 93

Re: Volumes are shown on desktop [Resolved]

Hi.

All fixed!  I took pelle.k suggestion and rebooted.

Thank you for all fast responses.

Csat

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