Selectively hide volumes on desktop

Pavel Fedin sonic_amiga at rambler.ru
Mon Aug 15 09:18:50 GMT 2005


Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> What version of GNOME do you have?  We haven't had a Root Volume icon on
> the desktop for about two and a half years.

  2.10.0

> Yes, but simply setting that sysctl is not sufficient for volumes to
> show up in Nautilus.  You must also own the mount point.  If you login
> as root, then you may see a volume for every entry in fstab.  However,
> we do not recommend using GNOME as root.

  Yes, i log in as root. It's a workstation, not a server, and it's my 
personal workstation. Managing my system with having to run 'su' or 
'sudo' every time is annoying.

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Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin


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