On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:11:59 +0530
Abhishek Rane <abhishekrane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Somwhere during the update trail F8 decided that under "computer"
> > nautilus should show everything.
After much googling, I managed to track this down (why anyone thought
that automounting fixed disks which were deliberately left out of
the fstab was a good idea, I leave for a separate debate :-).
You can make HAL refuse to mention fixed disks to anyone by adding
the file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-no-fixed-drives.fdi with the following
xml contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="false">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
This is apparently a standard file in the upstream hal sources, but
fedora 8 decided for whatever reason to remove it.
