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Today, I updated my Ubuntu 18.04 machine to 20.04. My laptop has both an SSD (where the OS is located) and a larger HDD (where most of my data is). Since the update, an icon for the hard drive appears permanently in the dock. This was not the case before I updated.

A screenshot showing that an icon representing my HDD, labelled 'Data', is present in the dock

It does not have any open instances (indeed, it can't have any 'opened instances' of its own - clicking it just opens the HDD's root directory in the file explorer), so that's not its excuse for appearing in the dock.

Ordinarily, if I don't want a particular icon in the dock, I can easily remove it:

A screenshot showing the context menu for the 'Geany' program icon in my dock, which includes an option labelled 'Remove from Favorites'

However, this does not seem to be possible with the HDD icon:

A screenshot showing the context menu for the 'Data' HDD icon in my dock, which does not include a 'Remove from Favorites' option

Of course, I could get rid of the icon by unmounting the HDD, but that is not an option - this is not some external drive I only use occasionally; it is a built-in hard drive containing nearly all my data and needs to be mounted during my routine use of the system.

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Open dconf Editor.

If dconf Editor is not on your system, do:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install dconf-editor

Adjust the following setting...

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  • Does Dash to Dock not have its own GUI for settings? I'm pretty sure it (and most other GNOME Shell extensions) does.
    – wb9688
    Aug 1, 2020 at 6:39
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    @wb9688 DtD is used for the DtD settings, which I don't have installed, or it's used for the standard Ubuntu Dock... as DtD is a superset of the Ubuntu Dock.
    – heynnema
    Aug 1, 2020 at 14:44

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