annoyances with usb drives

I used a usb drive ONCE, and now every time i reboot, theres the icon for the drive on my desktop, reguardless if the devices is plugged in and turned on. How can I get rid of this?.

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I used a usb drive ONCE, and now every time i reboot, theres the icon for the drive on my desktop, reguardless if the devices is plugged in and turned on. How can I get rid of this?

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there's probably an arrow head as part of the icon which is empty
when the device isn't connected and mounted and turns color when
the device is there... a slight change to indicate current status.
 
the stuff which appears on the desktop is found in the Desktop directory,
which means you could get rid of it by deleting the correct file found in that directory
or
you could just right-click on the offending icon and select "delete".
 

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Nope nope its not found there, just looked, and cant delete the icon, My guess is that its like supermount, where the icon is always there. So mebbe I can turn supermount off for those type of drives?

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ah, well then supermount is either making an icon for the usb
drive because it's still listed in /etc/fstab or there's a config
file which now has an entry in it for the usb drive.
 
'lsof' is a good tool to use to see what files supermount has open so you can find
the config file if the documentation for it doesn't spell out where to look for the config file.
 

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Have you tried commenting out the respective line in your /etc/fstab? It likely begins with /dev/sda1.