[SOLVED] Hide devices in Nemo?

[memilanuk]

Hello,

I'm test-driving Mint 14 Cinnamon on a new ThinkPad T530 (multi-booting with Win 7 Pro & openSuSE 12.2). So far... I'm liking Cinnamon a lot!

One thing that I was thinking should be possible, but I haven't been able to figure out 'how' yet (including searches here and on the world wild Web) is how to hide file system 'devices' in Nemo.

As an example... with this multi-boot system, Nemo lists 'SYSTEM_DRV', 'Windows7_OS', 'Lenovo_Recovery' (all Windows 7 related), '21GB Volume' (SuSE /) and '221GB Volume (SuSE /home). About the only thing it *doesn't* list is the filesystem root dir and the swap partition!

I'd like to be able to hide most or all of these devices, either from just myself (I would *hate* to accidentally click the wrong partition/device and eject or format something I really shouldn't), or from other users on the machine. Granted, they would need the admin password (mine) to be able to mount the devices and do anything bad, but I think it'd reduce the clutter and confusion if I could just make the devices not show up in Nemo to begin with...

Any suggestions?

TIA,

Monte

[altair4]

Oddly enough the easiest way to do this is to add an entry into /etc/fstab. Let's take 'Lenovo_Recovery' as an example since it appears to be a partition ( volume ) label.

This is just an example:

Create a mount point:

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sudo mkdir /mnt/LenRec

Add a line to fstab:

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LABEL=Lenovo_Recovery /mnt/LenRec auto defaults,noauto 0 0

Then issue the following command to force the new fstab instructions:

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sudo mount -a

It should remove the listing from your file manager.

Some of your other partitions do not appear to have labels so you will need to use the UUID instead. So for the SuSE partition it might look something like this:

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UUID=81c8f13a-6d65-46a8-a2c6-1542086576de /mnt/suse auto defaults,noauto 0 0

The first "auto" is where Linux tries to guess the filesystem of the partition in question. The "noauto" tells the system not to mount the partition at boot.

You can run the following command to find the exact labels and UUID's for all your partitions:

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sudo blkid -c /dev/null

Just make sure you don't do a noauto on your own Mint OS partition

[memilanuk]

Okay, looks like that should work... though I'm not exactly wild about creating mount points and adding entries to /etc/fstab for every filesystem partition or volume that I *don't* want to use. I had hoped that there might be an option similar to what dolphin (KDE4) has - to 'unpin' a listing from being displayed. That would most likely only be viable on a user-by-user basis, so /etc/fstab is probably a better system-wide solution.

Thanks,

Monte