Alternative way to handle hard drives & partitions in Ubuntu

21 06 2009

Just got Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 installed. I like the following behaviour to be applied to my hard drive partitions and mass storage devices – pen drives, USB disks:

  • Automount all partitions of internal hard disk – without using fstab:

In /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi

<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>

false -> true

  • No hard drive icons displayed on desktop:

In gconf-editor – Alt+F2 to launch it, go to:

apps -> nautilus -> desktop

uncheck volumes_visible