How to hide partitions from Places menu..

[karthick87]

karthick@Ubuntu-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

proc                                       /proc        proc      nodev,noexec,nosuid    0  0  
#Entry for /dev/sda7 :
UUID=ea6bb1fd-65fd-42f8-aa64-4a591993fe3b  /            ext4,acl  errors=remount-ro      0  1  
#Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=16b8e005-ba37-4212-986f-0ecd20243003  /media/sda2  ext3      defaults               0  0  
#Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=B630D52430D4EC7D                      /media/sda5  ntfs-3g   defaults,locale=en_IN  0  0  
#Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=D6E8DAE8E8DAC5C1                      /media/sda6  ntfs-3g   defaults,locale=en_IN  0  0  
#Entry for /dev/sda8 :
UUID=94f3a305-5cd8-4f4d-ba07-91c2a63d7498  none         swap      sw                     0  0

For example i wanna hide sda5,wat you want me to do??

[matt_symes]

Hi

Post your rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d.

What partitions are you trying to hide?

EDIT: Sorry missed your last post's comment. Hold on.

Kind regards.

[matt_symes]

Hi

Try this. You are using 10.04 or higher aren't you? Karmic and lower require a different idendifier. I.E. not UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/hide-partitions.rules

Enter password as per usual and copy and paste the code below into that file.

ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="hide_partition_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="block", GOTO="hide_partition_end"
KERNEL=="loop*|ram*", GOTO="hide_partition_end"

KERNEL=="sda5", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

LABEL="hide_partition_end"

Save the file and verify by typing

cat /etc/udev/rules.d/hide-partitions.rules

Check the flie is correct.

Next edit you fstab file

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Put a # in front of the line

UUID=B630D52430D4EC7D                      /media/sda5  ntfs-3g   defaults,locale=en_IN  0  0

so it becomes

# UUID=B630D52430D4EC7D                      /media/sda5  ntfs-3g   defaults,locale=en_IN  0  0

and save the file.

Again

cat /etc/fstab

to check the file.

Assuming all is well, reboot you PC. Then, hopefully, sda5 will not appear. This is what i did and it worked for me.

Kind regards

[matt_symes]

Hi

On my machine...

sudo blkid

/dev/sda1: LABEL="System_restore_win7" UUID="DAA41C49A41C2B11" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Windows_7_boot" UUID="921C18621C18441F" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Windows_7" UUID="A2984D43984D1767" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda5: LABEL="Ubuntu_10.04" UUID="3d48429c-7361-4ab8-8689-54407673b141" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda6: UUID="b1c6171a-075e-4291-af69-64baf751d10e" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sda7: LABEL="OpenSuse" UUID="56a4c951-b189-45cb-91e6-76c83b765044" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda8: LABEL="natty" UUID="fb661c9e-e56a-413b-bef4-dc2e0db8c0b1" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda9: LABEL="Fedora-14" UUID="3d35b416-3b1b-467d-892c-ac2095c0ab18" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda10: LABEL="Arch_Linux" UUID="6aa72302-2b4f-432c-953a-33c7513bfa47" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda11: UUID="926199d8-a8a5-4ae0-9014-e7ae790187a9" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda12: UUID="ef9ae3cc-e084-4664-bf0e-ae9bac39dace" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda13: UUID="f8dc5390-f494-4963-95ee-c27ecbf4fea1" TYPE="ext4"

My rule

cat /etc/udev/rules.d/hide--partitions.rules

ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="hide_partition_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="block", GOTO="hide_partition_end"
KERNEL=="loop*|ram*", GOTO="hide_partition_end"

KERNEL=="sda2", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

LABEL="hide_partition_end"

sda2 is my windows boot partition, as can be seen from blkid and the partition label.

Below is a screen shot of my menu. As you can see, sda2 or window_7_boot it is not under places. If i remove the rule it is displayed under places

Kind regards

[karthick87]

That worked like a charm Thank you matt_symes.

[matt_symes]

Hi

... and here is a screen shot with the rule removed.

matthew@matthew-laptop:~$ ls -a /etc/udev/rules.d/
. .. 70-persistent-cd.rules 70-persistent-net.rules README
matthew@matthew-laptop:~$

screen shot below. I hope it answers some of the questions about menu behaviour.

Kind regards

[Rubi1200]

Excellent stuff matt_symes

But an awfully complicated way to go about editing the Places menu!

Shouldn't this be made easier, especially for new users?

[matt_symes]

Shouldn't this be made easier, especially for new users?

Definitely!!!! Might make a nice project for someone.

[shimoda]

thanks a lot... I also was searching for this...