Re: hide system files by default in windows partitions

[Nelson Benítez León <nbenitezl gmail com>]

2009/4/21 Nelson Benítez León <nbenitezl gmail com>:
> 2009/4/21 Nicolò Chieffo <84yelo3 gmail com>:
>> Hello, I'm running ubuntu 9.04. Currently when mounting the windows
>> partition you are allowed to create and remove files.
>> Since you can delete dome important file/dir by accident, I propose to
>> hide such files by default:
>> Boot\
>> $Recycle.Bin\
>> System Volume Information\
>> Windows\
>> bootmgr
>> hiberfil.sys
>> pagefile.sys
>> desktop.ini
>>
>> Is it possible?
>
> You can hide them by creating with a text editor a ".hidden" file and
> write there the above list of files. This .hidden file is
> per-directory so in your case place it in the root of that windows
> partition.
>

I've added a FAQ item about this in http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus ,
I've also added a "User Guide" item to the frontpage that links to
nautilus official documentation.