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The Thursday 2008-01-10 at 11:24 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
The gnome desktop insists on displaying icons in the desktop for
partitions I once had but Ino longer have. The "delete" entry in
properties is greyed out even for root. I searched the whole filesystem
for any *.desktop file named as one of them, or containing the name of one
of them: nothing found. I don't know where on earth it is getting those
names from, but I want them out, and I don't want new ones to appear.
How do I delete those damm icons?
Are they listed in /etc/fstab still?
Yes and no.
In the fstab I have one at "/mnt/usb/apin/dos", and in the desktop I have
one named "dos", but it is a diferent "dos", beacuse in properties it has
the volume label of another disk (160_root), a partition that no longer
exists in the fstab (but it does in the partition table): it is
currently my root partition:
nimrodel:~ # mount -l
/dev/hdd6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,acl,user_xattr) [160_root]
I have other entries in my desktop named 'E', 'F', 'uno', 'Kingston'...
all of them refering to the same disk labeled '160_root'.
This is wrong...
[...]
Ok, the label shown is that of the root device on all icons.
Ok, if I try to mount one of them, I see that they refer to diferent
volumes of those named in properties, that do in fact exist in the fstab.
Then, if I put a disk in fstab, gnome will put an icon for it? How can I
tell it not to? This is idiotic: half my desktop is filled with those
icons I never use.
Clicking on them first says unable to mount, see details, and if I click
properties I see that it is counting the number of files there, but it
never opens the nautilus folder showing them.
Useless and a waste of precious desktop space! I want to delete them from
my desktop. How?
If I try to delete them I get permission denied. By whom? This is MY
comptuter and MY desktop and my /home/user/whatever !
Idiotic.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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