Hide disk information displayed on boot?

Question

I was wondering if there was any way to hide the disc information message (the one that says X blocks available, X blocks safe or something to that effect. Not sure what that's called.) that I get on start-up. Not that the information isn't helpful, it's just a message which causes unnecessary worry by reminding me of when my previous hard drive was failing. So, like, is there a way to either hide this behind a fancy start-up animation, or even have it buried within the wall of text that just confirms the computer's capabilities (again, not sure what it's called. It's the one that just says [OK] USB Keyboard and stuff like that).

Are referring to the information that gets displayed while ubuntu boots ??? — George Udosen, Dec 20 '16 at 20:17
Yes, I believe so. But it's oddly just information about the Disk, no other information is displayed. — Phoxxent, Dec 20 '16 at 20:25
Do you have the quiet splash boot parameters disabled which cause Ubuntu to show up the purple boot screen with the cycling dots? — Byte Commander, Dec 20 '16 at 20:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

To prevent the display of text information as Ubuntu boots you will need to edit your grub here /etc/default/grub.

Change :

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=    #shows text but not splash screen

to:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"   #no text but shows splash screen

I am assuming that you have it set to the first example, hence the information your seeing.

See here for a comprehensive explanation.

Hide disk information displayed on boot?

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