How do I hide a hard drive partition?

[vh-bil]

I am running Fedora 8 on a HDX9004TX note book and it has a recovery partition. I was wondering if there is a way for the recovery partition not to be visible in Linux.

Also I mounted another drive (partition) previously and it kept the authentication, how do I make it drop the authentication for drives so again asks.

[glennzo]

This thread at Fedora Forum, FedoraForum.org - Icons For Hard Drives on Gnome covers that issue well, specifically post #13. It removes ALL device icons from the desktop while allowing icons to show up when you insert a USB drive or a CD-ROM. Credit to a user here, Dies.

[vh-bil]

Thanks for your reply glennzo. What I have found (For anyone with the same issue) is:

In the file:
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi

at:

      <!-- HP ships desktops with a recovery partition -->
      <match key="volume.fstype" string="vfat">
	<match key="volume.label" string="HP_RECOVERY">
	  <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
	</match>
      </match>

should be:

      <!-- HP ships desktops with a recovery partition -->
      <match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
	<match key="volume.label" string="HP_RECOVERY">
	  <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
	</match>
      </match>

as the partition is ntfs not vfat.