CentOS - Aug 2015 - how do I stop automount of Hitichi Lifestudio USB drive

Most of the time, if I plug a USB drive into my computer,
gnome/centos/whatever will ask me what I want to do with it.
With a Hitachi Lifestudio, all the partitions mount without asking me.

How do I stop that behavior?

My suspicion is that the same kind of
mechanism is what makes candy drops work.
So far as I know, my backup drive is not candy,
but I would still like to be able to control my computer.

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Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical
reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young
goat to your SCSI chain now and then."   --   John Woods

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 03:34:53PM -0500, Michael Hennebry
wrote:
> 
> Most of the time, if I plug a USB drive into my computer,
> gnome/centos/whatever will ask me what I want to do with it.
> With a Hitachi Lifestudio, all the partitions mount without asking me.
> 
> How do I stop that behavior?
> 
> My suspicion is that the same kind of
> mechanism is what makes candy drops work.
> So far as I know, my backup drive is not candy,
> but I would still like to be able to control my computer.
Not sure, but if  you made entries for it in /etc/fstab that
explicitly said not to mount, that might do the trick.

It looks as if the "noauto" option should do the trick.

Fred
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 03:34:53PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>
>> Most of the time, if I plug a USB drive into my computer,
>> gnome/centos/whatever will ask me what I want to do with it.
>> With a Hitachi Lifestudio, all the partitions mount without asking me.
>>
>> How do I stop that behavior?
> Not sure, but if  you made entries for it in /etc/fstab that
> explicitly said not to mount, that might do the trick.
>
> It looks as if the "noauto" option should do the trick.
That might work.
I could add 30 entries to fstab:  /dev/sd[cde][1-9]

My suspicion is that whatever is mounting the drive
is treating it special and might ignore fstab.
Ideally I'd learn the the name of the automounter and what database to edit.


-- 
Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical
reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young
goat to your SCSI chain now and then."   --   John Woods