remove partition from places menu

[Clóvis Fabrício]

I have the following partition from my SATA disk registered in /etc/fstab:

UUID=46d90474-9fa1-47dc-82f8-1425c8430047 /media/sda1 ext3 defaults 0 2

It is being mounted correctly at boot, as I expect. I need it being mounted at boot. Many scripts I have use data from this partition.

But it is showing up for the common user in the places menu on gnome panel.
I need it to disappear from the menu.

How can I remove a partition from places menu? I want it mounted transparently, without showing to the user that there is a different partition.

I mean, the user can't mount/umount the partition, so why put it in the places menu? If you need such a thing you make a bookmark.

I see there are some old forum posts about it. This one has a screenshot from feisty, which shows how much of a trouble this can be.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=435521

And this one is from Breezy:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=96340

[Clóvis Fabrício (nosklo)]

Since this affects nautilus, places menu, drivemount applet, I guess this bug is against gnome-vfs right?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report and we are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu

[Clóvis Fabrício (nosklo)]

Pedro, thanks for your verification and response. My report is not a comment. It is a bug that you can't remove the partition from the list. There is an option listed in the places menu, and the user can't mount/umount, read, or access this option. And you can't remove it. That is a BUG.

The user can see the option, but can't do anything with it, it confuses the user. And the administrator can't do anything about it because there is no configuration, gconf key, anything that changes this behavior.

The expected behavior would be: * List only partitions that the user can mount/umount.
The behavior observed right now is: List all mounted partitions including ones inacessible to the user.

That difference between expected and observed behavior proves this is not just a "difficulty I am facing". This is a legitimate bug instead and should be treated as such. Please reconsider your analisis.

About your suggestion of using the support tracker, I did this already. The bug report is linked to the question in the support tracker: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/16593

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

As they way you reported this bug it looks like a "question" "how can i do something" that's totally an answer and that's why i pointed you to the support tracker. It seems that your bug is related to bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325476 ; thanks.