How to exclude selected file systems from being monitored by GNOME disk space notifier

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Issue

  • Is there a way to exclude certain file systems from being monitored by the GNOME disk space monitor (or at least suppress the popup messages)?
  • How to exclude specific file systems from being monitored by GNOME Settings Daemon's housekeeping plugin?
  • When a disk is about to get full, GNOME pop ups a notification message informing the file system is running out of space. There are circumstances being full is expected for a particular disk.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • GNOME Desktop Environment

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