Hide Partition Icons on the Desktop in Gnome

October 27, 2008 at 10:39 am | In Thoughts | 3 Comments
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One of the things that I’ve exploring with my Dell Mini 9 is expanding the amount of storage space that I have. This is particularly relevant as the program I wrote about the other day is going to be the focus of a presentation I need to conduct this week and it has a database over 1 GB in size.

Increasing the amount of disk space was easy. I purchased an 8GB SDHC card and formatted it with the ext2 file system which is a native Linux file system.

The one remaining issue was that an icon was on the desktop for the SDHC card. As I don’t plan on ever removing the SDHC card the icon was an unwelcome distraction.

To remove the icon I followed the “Hide Partition Icons From Your Ubuntu Desktop” post on the Tombuntu blog.

In the comments there are other techniques as well.

3 Comments

  1. I was going to get a 32 gig SSD upgrade for my mini. Then the Australian dollar crashed.

    http://mydigitalssd.com/

    Comment by Matthias — October 27, 2008 #

  2. Ha. I’m after a 32G SD for my eee, not SSD, but ouch for the same reasons.

    Comment by snail — October 27, 2008 #

  3. Yes, an 8 GB SDHC card was as high as I was going to go. With the 16GB SSD it should be plenty of space for everything I need to do.

    The SDHC really does two things:

    - It gives me some extra space
    - It provides a division between stuff on the laptop for general use, and somewhere for the more write intensive / presentation stuff.

    Comment by techxplorer — October 27, 2008 #


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