All partitions mount at boot

JawsThemeSwimming428 · 2008-09-27 07:09:09

I have recently installed Arch on one of my desktop machines and I love it! However, it loads all 9 of my partitions (on two separate internal HDD's) at boot. There is no need for this. I went into /etc/fstab and saw all of the UUID's. I then compared the UUID's I found in /etc/fstab with the UUID's of the mounted drives... none of them matched. Not sure why this is. Just wondering where I should go and what I should do to prevent my partitions from automatically mounting at boot. There are only 3 partitions I would like to have mounted other than the Arch / and /home.

lynucs · 2008-09-27 10:45:35

maybe you are using some tool like gnome-volume-manager or any udev script that mounts all the partitions? that would be the only explanation why partitions are getting mounted if they (or their uuid's) are not added to fstab.

how did you compare the uids actually? i'd go check to /dev/disk/by-uuid

JawsThemeSwimming428 · 2008-09-27 20:27:59

I right-clicked each drive and went to Properties -> Volume and it listed a UUID. How would I check udev to see if it is mounting all of the partitions?

hotloo · 2008-10-02 14:04:40

check your out ~~~

the hal and windowmanager will mount it auto~

JawsThemeSwimming428 · 2008-10-03 03:05:28

Not sure what you mean...can you explain a little more?

pelle.k · 2008-10-03 04:56:24

Well, arch never did automount partitions for me, other than those i specifically set up in /etc/fstab. What i think they are trying to tell you (hard to know since you didn't provide enough information), is that gnome-volume-manager is mounting those partitions during *login*.
If so, there's an easy way around that. Create /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi and in that file, paste this;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<!-- 
  The following shows how to hint gnome-volume-manager and other programs 
  that honor the storage.automount_enabled_hint to not mount non-removable
  media.
-->

  <device>

    <match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
      <match key="storage.removable" bool="false">
        <merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>
      </match>
    </match>

  </device>

</deviceinfo>

Reboot (or restart services). Did that help?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … able_media

JawsThemeSwimming428 · 2008-10-04 18:07:38

Yea, it worked! Thanks. One more question though. I have three data partitions and when I mount them they show up on the desktop. I just want them to show up in my /home directory. Any ideas?

pelle.k · 2008-10-05 11:19:20

Well, normally when you mount stuff under /media (such as hal/gvm does it), it shows on the desktop. If you want to override that, set those three partitions up in /etc/fstab, to mount under /home/<yourusername> (i would mount them under /mnt and make three symlinks to /home/<yourusername>).

JawsThemeSwimming428 · 2008-10-06 00:41:57

Alright, thanks for the help!

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#1 2008-09-27 07:09:09

All partitions mount at boot

#2 2008-09-27 10:45:35

Re: All partitions mount at boot

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