Non-removable vs removable?

[Jérôme Guelfucci]

On 18/01/11 08:04, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On lun., 2011-01-17 at 22:58 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>> Am Montag, den 17.01.2011, 21:32 +0100 schrieb Marek Kozlowski:
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> A new thing under 4.8. Is it a bug (for bugzilla) or a feature:
>>>
>>> Under 4.6 I was able to have icons on my desktop for my _removable_
>>> drives (pendrive, USB disk etc) but no icons for partitions on
>>> non-removable ones.
>>> Under 4.8 I can have icons for all partitions on all drives or none.
>>> Unfortunately I have 4 disks, approx. 8 partitions each... I'd like to
>>> have only icons for really _removable_ drives.
>>
>> BTW: I also have icons for LVMs like /dev/dm-X, both in Thunar and in
>> xfdeskop. Very annoying as one cannot handle them anyway.
>
> As far as I remember it's a problem in gio or gvfs. I think there was a
> bug tracking it but I can't remember the number, sorry.
>
> Regards,
>

If you manage to read French, Lionel has a howto to hide LVM snapshots 
using UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE and udev.

http://mrpouit.free.fr/?p=626

Even if you can't read French, I'm sure you can do something with the 
rule example.

Cheers,

Jérôme