[KDE Plasma] Any way I can make removable media "non removable media"?

[Cren]

Hello!
I hope I can get pointers. I bought a M2 drive where I now mount my /home. It’s connected in an external case via USB3.2.
I now have a cosmetic problem with the drive that it’s still listed as removable media in the taskbar and in Dolphin. Any way I can change that? Or at least hide the option to unmount it there?
I hope I could explain my problem sufficiently enough.

Thanks in advance.

[deano_ferrari]

I’m not sure that this can be done directly, but what you could do perhaps is have Udisks ignore the device with a suitable matching udev rule eg
ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_FS_UUID}=="560f8600-b20c-41d4-a720-446655450000", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}=1

You could then mount the device using /etcfstab (or systemd.mount unit perhaps), and the device will be seen as a system-mounted storage instead.

More info:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab#Automount_with_systemd

You can then add your own Dolphin ‘Places’ entry with a suitable label as preferred.

Let us know if further clarification needed.

[Cren]

Thanks for the pointers. I think I encountered another problem, which I didn’t think of, in the form of the disk going to sleep. At least that’s my intuition, as after a sleep or sometimes after some time of idle plasma will throw exceptions and problems unable to access files in my home folder. So I rebooted from another terminal every time.

I decided to move /home from the external drive to my games internal ssd. Said games I moved to my hdd temporarily until I can get more ssd storage.

I assume the sleep process is controlled by the controller of the external drive. It’s just too much hassle for me.
But thank you for your input and pointers! I will read up on them as they will probably come handy in the future!