On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:03:38 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Amadeus W.M. wrote: >> What's with all the hard drive icons on my F8 desktop for my data >> partitions? Can I get rid of them somehow? I imagine it's a nautilus >> thing. I really like a minimal desktop, with only the stuff that I >> want. > > IIRC this a HAL change. Instead of mounting them in /media, mount them > in /mnt or some other directory and the icons shouldn't show up on the > desktop anymore. If you like to hide all icons in any circumstances, > then there is a gconf setting for that. > > Rahul I wouldn't mind removable media showing on my desktop, but it's showing some non-standard hard drive partitions that I have, mounted as /data, /backup, etc. I have nothing in /media.
