Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34886
Comment: Hi hva, I'm going to change the default to not show VFAT/NTFS drives, so that the only visible hard disk partitions will be those in /media, which you probably want. :) Anyway, this particular policy is in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi: <!-- Here follow volumes we specifically want to ignore - it is the --> <!-- responsibility of software higher in the stack (e.g. gnome-vfs) --> <!-- amd mount programs (e.g. Mount() on HAL) to respect volume.ignore --> <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge> <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 key="volume.is_mounted" bool="true"> <!-- Show windows drives --> <match key="volume.fstype" string="vfat"> <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge> </match> <match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs"> <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge> </match> <!-- Show /media/ and /mnt drives --> <match key="volume.mount_point" compare_gt="/media"> <match key="volume.mount_point" compare_lt="/media0"> <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge> </match> </match> <match key="volume.mount_point" compare_gt="/mnt"> <match key="volume.mount_point" compare_lt="/mnt0"> <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge> </match> </match> </match> [...] The volume.ignore property is the key bit here; it defaults to false for hard disks, and needs to be set to true for the subset of partitions which should be shown -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs