Ignoring fixed partitions which are not mounted in /media

[Dan Nicholson]

On 4/18/07, Martin Pitt <martin at piware.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Danny Kukawka [2007-04-18 10:52 +0200]:
> > On SUSE we use the attached patch since ages.
> > +<deviceinfo version="0.2">
> > +<device>
> > +  <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
> > +    <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="false">
> > +      <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
> > +    </match>
> > +  </match>
> > +</device>
> > +</deviceinfo>
>
> Thanks for the info. That's even more restrictive than we have now.
> IIRC we had a similar rule once, but people complained about not
> seeing their windows partitions on their desktops, so we made an
> exception for /media/ (since this is where our installer proposes to
> mount them by default).
>
> So I figure this will stay a per-distro patch.

I'm just an observer, but I believe this will be much easier to
specify when the PolicyKit stuff stablilizes. At least, a friend who
was using it a month or two ago said it was possible when I put that
same Fedora patch into Linuxfromscratch.

--
Dan