How do I hide / remove a partition from the Nautilus left panel?

Question

I have a luks setup with encrypted partition. And I don't want everyone on my computer to see that I have such partition. Unfortunately it shows up in the nautilus "devices" panel as "Encrypted partition".

Is there a way to prevent it from showing there? I managed to setup authentication with usb key and I don't want the encrypted partition show in the panel.

Answer 1

You can just add it to /etc/fstab (this will cause it to be mounted automatically at startup). If you specify a mount point outside /media you don't see it in Nautilus anymore.

For those who don't know how to do this here's an example:

If you had a logical volume /dev/sda2 of the filesystem-type ext3 that you want to mount to a directory Music, because it contains your Music, you have to add the following new line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda2 /mnt/Music ext3 defaults 0 0

For other filesystems or names you just edit this line. Then, you save the file, make the mount point with sudo mkdir /mnt/Music, or whatever you want to name the mount point. If you don't want to reboot to see the change, just once execute sudo mount -a.