NTFS Partition – How to Hide an NTFS Partition from Ubuntu

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I need to hide an NTFS partition from listing in the nautilus. How can I achieve that?

Is there any tool to do that?

And how can I hide files in ubuntu (except . operator)

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Hiding partitions from Nautilus via »Disks«

In Ubuntu 12.10 and onward, there is a utility called Disks which shows all the available disks and allows to modify mount options for each partition.

Amongst the various options, you can decide if the partition will be mounted at boot time or not, and if it will appear in the user interface. Admin privileges are needed to apply changes.

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Ubuntu – Best practice to keep a NTFS partition constantly mounted

From what i can gleen from the question, you should add the device to the fstab for auto mounting at boot time. I've got several dual boot pc's on my network and they auto-mount the NTFS partition without any usability issues.

My personal mount line in /etc/fstab looks like this:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/large ntfs user 0 0

if you dont want it to auto-mount at boot, you can always add the noauto flag

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/large noauto,ntfs user 0 0

With this particular line, any user can mount/unmount the volume.

Ubuntu – Files disappear on NTFS partition

Try running a file system check in Windows7 on that partition. Hopefully the lost files will magically reappear afterwards.

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Hiding partitions from Nautilus via »Disks«

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