i was trying xubuntu 14.04 beta and in the icon tab of 'desktop settings', its possible to show 'disks and drives' which lumps together drives the are on internal drives and ones that are attached and it would be nice if i could only select an option to show usb removable drives.
AFAIK it's not possible to make a distinction between "external" and "internal" drives in udisks. What you can do is add your internal drives to /etc/fstab so that udisks doesn't handle mounting them, and they won't display in the "devices" list in file managers/xfdesktop. I suggest wontfix for this bug, but a word from the maintainer would be welcome. Thanks.
Well fixing Bug 10758 might mean that we update the settings dialog to allow the user to pick which mounts are shown on the desktop as the GIO concept of volumes doesn't do what we want... So this may indirectly get implemented.
Created attachment 8510 still appear on desktop (In reply to Julien [nodiscc] from comment #1) > AFAIK it's not possible to make a distinction between "external" and > "internal" drives in udisks. What you can do is add your internal drives to > /etc/fstab so that udisks doesn't handle mounting them, and they won't > display in the "devices" list in file managers/xfdesktop. Even when having them in fstab, they still appear on the desktop.
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