How to remove some mounted partition icons?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jan 1 21:48:05 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 16:29 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 11:48 +0000, Ron Yorston wrote:
> > David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >I'd like to think that if you have a dedicated partition that you
> > >actually go through the trouble of mounting at a non-standard mount
> > >point, then it's because you have data on it that you want to access. If
> > >you want to access the data, then you should get an icon on the desktop.
> > 
> > That's a non sequitur.  Our standard kickstart installation sets up a /data
> > partition.  It's used to hold Oracle database and seismic data files,
> > neither of which can sensibly be accessed through an icon on the desktop.
> > 
> > The fact that /data is a separate partition is irrelevant to our customers.
> > It shouldn't appear on the desktop.
> 
> That's a non sequitur.  Our standard kickstart installation sets up
> a /data partition.  It's used to hold customer documents and references,
> both of which can sensibly be accessed through an icon on the desktop.
> 
> The fact that /data is a separate partition is irrelevant to our
> customers. It should appear on the desktop.

who is the 'we' in this statement?

-sv





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