All the mounted drives (this includes USB drives, NTFS and other partitions that you set to automount, etc. – basically everything that’s in /media) show up in the Ubuntu 11.04 Unity launcher by default which is usually ok if you have a big monitor or if you don’t have a lot of applications pinned to the Launcher. But if you use a netbook or just want more space on your Unity launcher, here’s how to change the launcher behavior so that it doesn’t display any mounted drives.
But firstly, here is how to unmount external devices.
