Several system partitions show up in Device Notifier, this is known as bug 358085. Since I could not find a workaround within KDE (especially because of bug 290377), I used a udev rule to set the udisks2 HintIngore property for my system volumes. This rule shows correctly in solid-hardware output (see screenshot), but the volume is still displayed. Device Notifier should be ignoring it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have a LUKS volume 2. Tell udev to tell udisks to tell solid to hide it. Actual Results: The volume still shows up in in Device Notifier. Expected Results: Device Notifier should ignore volumes if the "ignore" property is set in solid.
Created attachment 99362 [details] Unwanted entry in Device Notifier
Created attachment 99363 [details] Output of solid-hardware confirming the ignore property
I have the same issue, though my LUKS volumes are non-removable (and I have Device Notifier configured to show all devices). Despite that I have set UDISKS_IGNORE="1" on my LUKS volumes, Device Notifier still shows them. As in Comment 2, solid-hardware5 shows 'StorageAccess.ignored' and 'StorageVolume.ignored' are both true. Device Notifier respects the 'ignored' hints on my non-LUKS volumes, but it apparently ignores the hint on LUKS volumes. I am on Plasma 5.18.3.
If it works in Solid, but not the applet, that would be a bug in the Data Engine which acts as a go-between. Moving there. Perhaps this could be fixed by porting the applet away from the data engine and using Solid directly. That'll probably happen in Plasma 6 at the latest, after Data Engines are removed. I know Kai had a WIP branch to port it to a saner backend so maybe that could be done sooner.
That has now happened for Plasma 6.2.0.
Reopening because I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure out why I can't stop my encrypted external storage from showing up in the device notifier. My experience is identical to the original report. I see a comment that this bug has been fixed in Plasma 6.2 but I am running Plasma 6.3 coming out of Debian Trixie and I can't get this noise in the device notifier to go away. Like the original report, I am able to successfully ignore other external storage. It appears to be the presence of LUKS that makes it unignorable. I set a rule in udev: ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_USB_SERIAL}=="USB_SanDisk_3.2Gen1_04015e8d9545760cbb5adf8f417f6c7770a5cea29fffd2576fbc36c4f6effa149bff00000000000000000000204fe2bdff85801881558107ce3000df-0:0", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1" I don't seem to have a solid-hardware binary but can confirm HINT_IGNORE makes it into udisks (via udisksctl dump) for the entire drive and the partition: /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdc: org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block: Configuration: [] CryptoBackingDevice: '/' Device: /dev/sdc DeviceNumber: 2080 Drive: '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/USB_SanDisk_3_2e2Gen1_04015e8d9545760cbb5adf8f417f6c7770a5cea29fffd2576fbc36c4f6effa149bff00000000000000000000204fe2bdff85801881558107ce3000df' HintAuto: true HintIconName: HintIgnore: true HintName: HintPartitionable: true HintSymbolicIconName: HintSystem: false Id: IdLabel: IdType: IdUUID: IdUsage: IdVersion: MDRaid: '/' MDRaidMember: '/' PreferredDevice: /dev/sdc ReadOnly: false Size: 494206451712 Symlinks: /dev/disk/by-diskseq/99 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_SanDisk_3.2Gen1_04015e8d9545760cbb5adf8f417f6c7770a5cea29fffd2576fbc36c4f6effa149bff00000000000000000000204fe2bdff85801881558107ce3000df-0:0 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:00.0-usb-0:7:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:00.0-usbv2-0:7:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 UserspaceMountOptions: org.freedesktop.UDisks2.PartitionTable: Partitions: /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdc1 Type: dos /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdc1: org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block: Configuration: [('crypttab', {'name': <b'backup01'>, 'device': <b'UUID=de9ab957-6766-4788-8d55-768d28587718'>, 'passphrase-path': <b'/etc/crypt/backup01'>, 'options': < b'noauto'>})] CryptoBackingDevice: '/' Device: /dev/sdc1 DeviceNumber: 2081 Drive: '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/USB_SanDisk_3_2e2Gen1_04015e8d9545760cbb5adf8f417f6c7770a5cea29fffd2576fbc36c4f6effa149bff00000000000000000000204fe2bdff 85801881558107ce3000df' HintAuto: true HintIconName: HintIgnore: true HintName: HintPartitionable: true HintSymbolicIconName: HintSystem: false Id: by-uuid-de9ab957-6766-4788-8d55-768d28587718 IdLabel: backup01 IdType: crypto_LUKS IdUUID: de9ab957-6766-4788-8d55-768d28587718 IdUsage: crypto IdVersion: 2 MDRaid: '/' MDRaidMember: '/' PreferredDevice: /dev/sdc1 ReadOnly: false Size: 494205403136 Symlinks: /dev/disk/by-diskseq/99-part1 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-USB_SanDisk_3.2Gen1_04015e8d9545760cbb5adf8f417f6c7770a5cea29fffd2576fbc36c4f6effa149bff00000000000000000000204fe2bdff85801881558107ce3000df-0:0-part1 /dev/disk/by-label/backup01 /dev/disk/by-partuuid/a03c4120-01 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:00.0-usb-0:7:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part/by-label/backup01 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:00.0-usb-0:7:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part/by-partnum/1 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:00.0-usb-0:7:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part/by-partuuid/a03c4120-01 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:00.0-usb-0:7:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part/by-uuid/de9ab957-6766-4788-8d55-768d28587718 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:00.0-usb-0:7:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:02:00.0-usbv2-0:7:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 /dev/disk/by-uuid/de9ab957-6766-4788-8d55-768d28587718 UserspaceMountOptions: org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Encrypted: ChildConfiguration: [] CleartextDevice: '/' HintEncryptionType: MetadataSize: 16777216 org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Partition: Flags: 0 IsContained: false IsContainer: false Name: Number: 1 Offset: 1048576 Size: 494205403136 Table: '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdc' Type: 0x83 UUID: a03c4120-01 I don't see any other relevant entries.