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ineuw

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From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2015-11-24

Posts: 98

Hiding unused drives in Thunar

I have a number of empty NTSF partitions which are not in use, and are omitted from fstab. Is it possible to hide them from the Thunar sidebar?

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,000

Re: Hiding unused drives in Thunar

Try using udev rules to hide these partitions from your DE.

Create the file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-hide-partition.rules with the following content:

KERNEL=="sda1", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sdb2", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"

...change "sda1" and "sda2" to match the partitions that you want to hide. Add more lines if you need them.

Then re-load the udev rules:

sudo udevadm trigger

...and close and restart Thunar. If Thunar is running in daemon mode, you might need to restart that process as well (or log out and back in again).

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ineuw

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From: Québec, Canada

Registered: 2015-11-24

Posts: 98

Re: Hiding unused drives in Thunar

Thanks again ToZ.

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Sideburns

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From: Trinidad, CO

Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 467

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Re: Hiding unused drives in Thunar

Another way to do this is to add them to /etc/fstab, and include noauto in the options.

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