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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with two hard drives.

The second drive is set to mount to /home/myuser/DATA and it mounts OK. However gnome shows a 'Removable Devices' item in notification area which lists my hard drive with the unmount button.

How do I make Ubuntu to treat the second hdd like the system one, without suggesting me to unmount it in the notification area?

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I'm also interested in the answer to this question, as I have the same problem with LUKS encrypted drives. – zigg May 11 '12 at 19:01

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The solution is to change the mount point to /mnt/"something". Modify your fstab and it shouldn't show the unmount option any longer.

Then you may bind mount it to the directory you want:

UUID=your_uuid_here /mnt/DATA ext4       defaults        0       2
/mnt/DATA             /home/yrogirg/DATA   none bind 0 0
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Can't test this, because my LUKS partition is mounted as / and cannot be relocated. – zigg May 18 '12 at 18:24
hm @zigg I haven't tried that yet, because I don't need mounting to /mnt either. But what if mounting to /mnt and then bind mount to / ? – Yrogirg May 19 '12 at 15:36
It worked for me, To Do, I've edited your answer a bit to include bind mount fstab line. and there is a typo, it should be "UUID" – Yrogirg May 19 '12 at 15:48
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It looks like the GNOME people are already aware of this; see this bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660595

(For now, though, it's sufficiently annoying to me that I'd like to see a workaround, hence the bounty.)

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Modify your /etc/fstab adding a line as follows:

UUID=[your second hdd UUID] /               ext3    errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0       1

You may want to change "/" with a different mount point or ext3 with the correct file system.

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how does it supposed to solve the problem? Is it because of 1? or user_xattr? – Yrogirg May 16 '12 at 16:54
Just try and tell me if it works... It's a combo between those options. – jasmines May 16 '12 at 19:21
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It doesn't work for LUKS devices. My encrypted partition, which is already on / and already has an fstab entry with a pass number of 1 (FWIW: the pass number is used by fsck to determine the order of filesystem checks at boot time), still shows as a removable drive. I'm not totally sure what user_xattr was supposed to do for this anyway. – zigg May 16 '12 at 23:14
2 more hints. 1) Try with pysdm (it's a fstab GUI editor). 2) looking in /sys/block/ I saw two files that could be help: /sys/block/sda/removable (it contains 0) and /sys/block/sr0/removable (it contains 1). – jasmines May 17 '12 at 4:12
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I'm afraid that we (you) will have to wait for the next release in the GNOME 3 series, that is scheduled for 24 September 2012. However you could try to go with the live development version (currently in a very early 3.5.1) to see if the problem is being handled: news.softpedia.com/news/… – jasmines May 18 '12 at 14:33
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