Hello Tom, On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 09:55:48 -0500 Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I suppose this could be set using `hal-set-property`? Half off-topic, but I've recently found that `hal-disable-polling` can be useful to avoid auto-mounting some media (like CDs). This also saves some CPU and desktop latency. Regards, -- wwp
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