Re: Hiding NFS mounts on desktop

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 21:56 -0400, Patrick wrote:
>    I have searched all through the archives and Google and cannot find 
> the correct answer to hiding NFS mounts. I have quite a few and they 
> really clutter up the desktop. I found one page which suggested I add to 
> the /usr/share/config/kdesktoprc file the following:
> 
> exclude=media/hdd_mounted,<snip>,media/hdd_unmounted,mnt/nfs_mounted
> 						     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>    Since everything is mounted at /mnt/foo, I added this to the 
> configuration file but it does not seem to work. Does anyone have a 
> solution to this ??
> 
> Thanks !!!
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 										
> 
The fact that all of your NFS mpints are mouted under /mnt is
suspicious. Are you mounting the NFS mounts in fstab. If you are they
should not show up on the desktop. At least they never did for me.