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Flávio Amieiro
Asked: 2009-05-11 05:54:02 +0800 CST

How to prevent gnome from auto-mounting a partition?

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I have a partition on my Hard Drive that I want users to be able to mount, but it shouldn't be automatic, so I've put this in my /etc/fstab:

     /dev/sda5       /media/data    vfat    defaults,user,noauto    0   0

It works great for command line. The partition is mounted only when someone explicitly mounts it.

But whenever a user starts gnome, it automounts the partition, even though fstab says it is not suposed to be mounted automatically.

I know this is almost certainly a gnome setting, but I just couldn't find it in gconf-editor (it looks too much like the Windows register editor for me).

Can anyone help me figure this out?

linux partition gnome

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    There's a patch to get gnome to honor the noauto flag:

    http://patches.ubuntu.com/by-release/extracted/ubuntu/g/gnome-volume-manager/2.17.0-2ubuntu2/02_honour_automount_enabled_hint.patch

    From the surrounding thread, it looks like it's been ignoring it for a couple of versions now:

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=989666

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