Selectively hide volumes on desktop

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 10:04 +0400, Pavel Fedin wrote:
>   Hello there!
>   I'd like to ask if there is a possibility to selectively hide volumes 
> from the desktop. There is an icon called "Root volume" and it annoys me 
> because in fact it duplicates "Filesystem" icon in "My computer" (root 
> volumes also appears there too).
>   I also have a Linux box and "Root volume" doesn't appear there. Can i 
> replicate this effect on FreeBSD?

What version of GNOME do you have?  We haven't had a Root Volume icon on
the desktop for about two and a half years.

>   I guess this depents on whether the volume is mountable by non-root 
> users or not. On Linux this can be set individually using "user" option 
> in /etc/fstab, on FreeBSD this is set globally for all the system using 
> sysctl value. BTW, i think it's bad that root can be unmounted by user.

Yes, but simply setting that sysctl is not sufficient for volumes to
show up in Nautilus.  You must also own the mount point.  If you login
as root, then you may see a volume for every entry in fstab.  However,
we do not recommend using GNOME as root.

Joe

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