There was a time, not too long ago, when my Gnome 2.12.3
desktop was clean. It showed only three icons, Trash,
Computer and Home. Now it's littered with ugly-looking
"Volume" icons representing the partitions of my lone hard
drive. These are partitions that are of no interest to the
typical desktop user, for example, /usr (shown as an icon in
desktop with the remarkably undescriptive label "7.4 GB
Volume") and /var ("957.0 MB Volume") which contains files
that the user never interacts directly with. How do I get
rid of these drive icons? Dragging the icons to the Trash
only gives me a dialog telling me that the volume in
question can only be unmounted by root.-- Albert Einstein: Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.
