Have TrueCrypt volumes show up in Gnome toolbar "Places"

How can I have volumes I mount in via TrueCrypt show up in "Places" in the Gnome's Toolbar?
I am indeed mounting the volume to a folder in /media. I've tried placing an entry for the volume (/dev/mapper/truecrypt0 /media/storage [...]) in fstab, but to nothing.
(I remember that it would show up back in Ubuntu, so I know it's possible somehow.)
I guess a related question, which would be helpful to know if a potential answerer doesn't knows anything about TrueCrypt in specific, would be: how does Gnome decide what to put in the "Places" menu?

For the record, for those who care, Gnome 2.22 seems to have fixed this issue.

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One other thought: does the question mark go away when you open a folder?
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[SOLVED / Workaround] Hiding a TrueCrypt volume

I have a TrueCrypt file that contains my personal information. I mount it from the command line when I need it. How can I hide the mounted TrueCrypt volume from appearing in my file manager (PCManFM)?
I tried creating a udev rule in "/etc/udev/rules.d/99-hide-partitions.rules":
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UDEV [720.537028] add /devices/virtual/bdi/254:0 (bdi)
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UDEV [720.588484] change /devices/virtual/block/loop0 (block)
UDEV [720.612304] change /devices/virtual/block/dm-0 (block)
How can I hide the volume from my file manager? Should I use udev or another method?
Thank you!
Last edited by drcouzelis (2014-01-01 00:14:01)

drcouzelis wrote:and two, if "dm-0" is the udev name of the device I'm trying to hide...
Yes, as far as I know dm-0 is correct, you can use it like that in a udev rule.
Did you have a look at '/lib/udev/rules.d' , maybe you need to change "99" in 99-hide-partitions.rules, it needs to have a different number I guess, looking at the files in '/lib/udev/rules.d'.
I would call it 15-hide-partitions.rules, really I don't know if it works, but you could try
I can't check it for you as I don't have a dm device on this machine.
edit: Ah, so now I see what you mean, although I don't have a solution.
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Because it looks like when you issue the command, dm-0 is not appearing in the list, I only see this with "udevadm monitor" , so I try some more, I think however, we need some help
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