Basically, hide a hard drive from other users - how?

One way to do it is to set your fstab (/etc/fstab - the file which tells your distro which drives to mount and where) so it doesn't auto mount the drive(s), and change the KDE settings to not show unmounted drives. You could also (if you really wanted) only allow root to mount/unmount the drive. A quick example of what the fstab line might look like after is this: Just don't mount it: "/dev/sdb1 /media/Stuff auto rw,noauto,async,exec 1 1" Don't mount it and only let root mount it: "/dev/sdb1 media/Stuff auto rw,noauto,async,exec,nouser 1 1" I hope this helps, let me know how it turns out / if this does(n't) sort your problem. Penguin Edit: Hmm, it seems it doesn't like tab spaces; don't copy the entire line, just the "rw,noauto,async,exec" part, and replace what's there already (alternatively, just change what's there so you have noauto (and nouser if you only want root to mount it) in there. [Modified by: Penguin on June 30, 2008 10:37 AM] Edit 2: If you wanted, you could also change the mount point to your home directory, so looking in /media (or /mnt) wont show the mount points either (thus not giving away the fact that some thing's not mounted). So instead of "/media/Stuff" you'd have /home/mount/Stuff" (or wherever, just make sure the directory exists where you're trying to mount to, it's not always necessary, but it never hurts). [Modified by: Penguin on June 30, 2008 10:45 AM]