Fedora 8: Stopping all the diskpartitions from showing on the desktop.

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 15:44 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> I installed F8 in November, and have an annoying problem.
> 
> My userid was the one that I selected after chosing the root password
> during the installation.  When I log to my user-id, I get to see every
> disk partition available on the system, and I have many.
> 
> When I created other logon id's, these partitions did not show on the
> desktop. If I want them to show, I issue a mount command for them.
> 
> Anyone tell me where gnome or kde stores this list?  I really want to
> stop unmounting them, one at a time after logon as they are mounted
> read-write.
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KDE answer

kcontrol (K => Control Center) => Desktop => Behavior => Device Icons

select 'Mounted Hard Disk Volume' (or deselect) as desired

Craig