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

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.


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Michael Hennebry wrote:
> 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.
autofs is what's mounting it. But if you turn it off, you'll have to
manually mount anything that's not in /etc/fstab.

Sounds like gnome's trying to be WinDoze....

      mark

On Aug 12, 2015, at 5:22 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> autofs is what's mounting it. But if you turn it off, you'll have
to
> manually mount anything that's not in /etc/fstab.
> 
> Sounds like gnome's trying to be WinDoze....
Its not ?autofs? specifically (which is a simple thing) but udev talking to
udisks, allowing your login session to use udisks to mount the volumes if
allowed by PolicyKit, speaking through dbus.

Yeah.

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