How to remove some mounted partition icons?

[Valent Turkovic]

On 12/28/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/28/07, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> ]# ls -al /var/lib/PolicyKit
> total 16
> drwxrwxr-x  2 polkituser polkituser 4096 2007-10-12 00:52 .
> drwxr-xr-x 33 root       root       4096 2007-12-23 16:46 ..
>

I found an relevant forum post:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=931284

and I posted RFE to Redhat bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426907

Hope this helps sort this issue...

Valent.

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