[solved] Is there any way to stop the automount 'feature'

mykey · 2007-03-13 10:58:58

Hi

I have been fiddling with this for days now and I did not only search this forum but can not seem to find a solution - I do not want the automount cdrom/dvd 'feature' even if - from what I read here - most people seem to want this - I don't.

How can I disable it?

I am using xfce4 as a desktop environment, installed everything starting from base and use krusader as my file manager - so - as long as I don't touch the dir where a cd/dvd is mounted in krusader things work ok but once I do, I can only unmount the device - no matter from where - after closing krusader. Plus I am so used to manual mounting I can seriously do without this automount stuff.

greetings
mykey

Last edited by mykey (2007-03-13 21:51:51)

Stalwart · 2007-03-13 12:09:07

It's KDE feature. If you like manual device management - just don't start dbus and hal

mykey · 2007-03-13 13:33:42

Thanks for your answer - if it was that easy .. yes - the automount is off when I stop those two - but the problem remains - I can not unmount without closing krusader - everything was working fine before some recent udev update .. things are borked since then. Also - there is a nice mount plugin in xfce4 that seized to work correctly for cd/dvd mounting since then.

EDIT:
Right - I found what's causing the grief - fam - I disabled it and things are back to normal - even automount seems to work properly - thanks again for pointing me at the right directions.

Last edited by mykey (2007-03-13 21:50:13)

Stalwart · 2007-03-13 22:16:09

I don't like fam too. It's reinvented bicycle - linux has inotify

phrakture · 2007-03-14 02:06:53

Stalwart wrote:

I don't like fam too. It's reinvented bicycle - linux has inotify

FAM was originally written for IRIX in 1989 by Bruce Karsh, and was rewritten in 1995 by Bob Miller.

It's actually the other way around. fam is an essential puzzle piece to NFS.

Snarkout · 2007-03-14 02:19:55

Stalwart wrote:

It's KDE feature. If you like manual device management - just don't start dbus and hal

FWIW, I use kde almost exclusively and also use hal and dbus and nothing automounts on my systems, so this isn't entirely true. You can tell kde you want things automounted, but you don't have to automount.

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#1 2007-03-13 10:58:58

[solved] Is there any way to stop the automount 'feature'

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