Hiding partitions in Xubuntu 14.04

Hiding partitions in Xubuntu 14.04

After installing Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, it put an sda1 icon on my desktop, which was my boot drive, and I did not want it to keep showing up. Here are the steps that I went thru to prevent it.


1. Create or edit the udev rules:

sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/99-hide-disks.rules

2. Add the following lines where sda1 is the drive you want to hide:

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

3. Then reboot the system.