unwanted icons

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:03:38 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>> What's with all the hard drive icons on my F8 desktop for my data
>> partitions? Can I get rid of them somehow? I imagine it's a nautilus
>> thing. I really like a minimal desktop, with only the stuff that I
>> want.
> 
> IIRC this a HAL change. Instead of mounting them in /media, mount them
> in /mnt or some other directory and the icons shouldn't show up on the
> desktop anymore. If you like to hide all icons in any circumstances,
> then there is a gconf setting for that.
> 
> Rahul

I wouldn't mind removable media showing on my desktop, but it's showing 
some non-standard hard drive partitions that I have, mounted as /data, /backup,
etc. I have nothing in /media.