How to remove some mounted partition icons?

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 11:21:27 UTC 2007


On 28/12/2007, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have Fedora 8 and on the gnome desktop I see some icons from my
> partitions that I don't wan't on my gnome desktop.
>
> I don't have a problem with having my storage partition on my desktop
> but I also have also 4 other linux distos on my laptop and I see all
> of their system partitions on my desktop!
>
> I know that there is a way to disable ALL partition shortcuts but then
> I wouldn't see my usb drives on desktop when I plug in usb flash
> drives and I don't want that.
>
> So how do I remove only the shortcuts I don't want from my desktop?
>
> I saw an Ubuntu (which obviously also uses Gnome) trick which doesn't
> work on fedora
> On ubuntu only drives that are in /media are shown on the gnome desktop.
> I edited /etc/fstab so that partitions I don't want on desktop are
> mounted in /mnt - that worked on my Ubuntu but it didn't work in
> Fedora
>
> And ideas?

What does /var/lib/PolicyKit contain?




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