How to hide a disk?

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:11:59 +0530
Abhishek Rane <abhishekrane at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Somwhere during the update trail F8 decided that under "computer"
> > nautilus should show everything.

After much googling, I managed to track this down (why anyone thought
that automounting fixed disks which were deliberately left out of
the fstab was a good idea, I leave for a separate debate :-).

You can make HAL refuse to mention fixed disks to anyone by adding
the file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-no-fixed-drives.fdi with the following
xml contents:

<?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>

This is apparently a standard file in the upstream hal sources, but
fedora 8 decided for whatever reason to remove it.