Floppy drive. Who uses them anymore? I haven’t in about 5 years at least, and I certainly don’t want it making my Gnome environment looking messy. To make the icon disappear from the Places etc, simply comment out the /dev/fd0 line in your fstab file:
sudo gvim /etc/fstab
/fd0
I
#
<esc>
:wq
That should do it. Check out Nautilus.
For those interested about the vim commands I used in this post, read here.