From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Horsley Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:23:21 +0000 Subject: Re: Make an un-device? Message-Id: <20100324132321.090887fd@zooty> List-Id: References: <20100324124352.0978847e@zooty> In-Reply-To: <20100324124352.0978847e@zooty> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:07:52 -0400 David Zeuthen wrote: > One way to make such annoying drives disappear in GNOME and some other > desktop environments is to set the UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE (or if you > are on an older distro than F13 vintage, it's called > DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE) udev property like e.g. this Yea, I found that, but it has already changed three times now (first you used hal, then you used DKD, now you use UDISK). I figured a lower level eradication might stick through more changes :-). Having some user configurable way to utterly hide devices does seem useful. I recall having a "helpful" operating system "upgrade" all the partitions on a disk once, thus rendering it utterly useless in the multi-boot environment that could boot older kernels.