How to hide hard disk size in volume name?I just want to show volume name alone.
Ubuntu – How to hide hard disk size in volume name
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It's in gsettings (& dconf-editor), to do from cli use
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false
From gui open dconf-editor (install dconf-tools) as in screen
Tested under Nautilus 3.4.2 on Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 (but works in almost all scenarios)
Open gnome-terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T).
Type ls /.
Copy the name(s) of the folder(s) you want hidden.
Press Alt+F2, then type in gedit.
Paste all the names you want hidden like so:
Image excerpted from Another Way to Hide Files Folders in Ubuntu by Meilin
Save the file (Ctrl+S) in the directory / with the name .hidden (no asterisk, as seen in the image above).
Refresh the page, and they are gone.
Image from How to hide files and folders - EuroBytes
If you want them unhidden later...
To unhide the folders, you can either:
- remove there names from the
.hiddenfile, or - just press Ctrl+H to view all hidden files and folders.
Reference:
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This "feature" has already been reported to the nautilus team (see gnome-bugs #593405) and marked
NOTABUG, however its triaged on Ubuntu so you might see this fixed in Oneiric.How to fix it:
I made a patch that reverts the upstream commit that added this feature. You'll need a bit of console work to apply it:
mkdir gvfs; cd gvfssudo apt-get build-dep gvfsapt-get source gvfswget https://launchpadlibrarian.net/77889392/100_remove_redundant_labels2.patchcd gvfs-*/; quilt import ../100_remove_redundant_labels2.patchdpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakerootsudo dpkg -i ../*.deb