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Yrogirg
Asked: 2012-05-09 04:31:58 +0800 CST

Disable removable device notification for hard drives

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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with two hard drives.

The second drive is set to mount to /home/myuser/DATA and it mounts OK. However gnome shows a 'Removable Devices' item in notification area which lists my hard drive with the unmount button.

How do I make Ubuntu to treat the second hdd like the system one, without suggesting me to unmount it in the notification area?

mount notification-area

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The solution is to change the mount point to /mnt/"something". Modify your fstab and it shouldn't show the unmount option any longer.

    Then you may bind mount it to the directory you want:

    UUID=your_uuid_here /mnt/DATA ext4       defaults        0       2
/mnt/DATA             /home/yrogirg/DATA   none bind 0 0
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  2. It looks like the GNOME people are already aware of this; see this bug:

    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660595

    (For now, though, it's sufficiently annoying to me that I'd like to see a workaround, hence the bounty.)

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  3. Modify your /etc/fstab adding a line as follows:

    UUID=[your second hdd UUID] /               ext3    errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0       1

    You may want to change "/" with a different mount point or ext3 with the correct file system.

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