[Solved] How to prevent devices show up in nemo sidebar

[nocom]

I have a dual boot installation in which the windows partitions are automatically mount by mint or nemo. I don't want this as I am sure I will make a blunder with this some time. How can I prevent that the windows mounts do show up in nemo and better, are (auto)mounted at all?

[Cosmo.]

Partition get only automounted, if you have created entries for them the file /etc/fstab. Remove the respective lines or set a # at the beginning of those lines (that comments them out).

[altair4]

Just so I understand the nature of the problem tell me if I got this right: You open up Nemo and on the side panel are your Windows partitions. You click on it and you can access those partitions.

If I got that right then your partitions are not being automounted. The entries on the side panel are actionable links to those partitions. Click on it and they mount and then display the contents of those partitions.

One way to prevent that from happening is actually to add entires into /etc/fstab. For Example:

[1] Create a mount point for your Windows C "drive":

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sudo mkdir /mnt/WinC

[2] Find the UUID number for this partition by running this command:

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sudo blkid -c /dev/null

[3] Then add this to the end /etc/fstab:

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UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /mnt/WinC ntfs defaults,umask=077,noauto 0 0

Change xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to the UUID number you found in step [2].

/mnt/WinC = Anything mounted under /media or your home directory show up on the side panel of Nemo. Mount it somewhere else and it will not.
noauto = prevents the partition from mounting at boot.

[nocom]

@altair4, thanks very much for the explanation as to what is happening. You got it all right. And your solution works as well!