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FLCLFan

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Hard drive mounts on boot

Hey,

When I boot my computer I see that my other hard drive get mounted automatically. How do I stop this HDD from being auto mounted?

Thanks

SkonesMickLoud

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Registered: 2008-09-20

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Re: Hard drive mounts on boot

Edit your /etc/fstab, and add noauto to the "<options>" column of whatever drives you don't want mounted automatically.

FLCLFan

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Re: Hard drive mounts on boot

Tried it, and failed. I have never done this before so im new to this.

The drive is a NTFS drive that when mounted shows "fuseblk" as the type. Its auto mounted with HAL so theres no fstab entry for it. What would the entry look like?

bender02

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Registered: 2007-02-04

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Re: Hard drive mounts on boot

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL might help

scrllock

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Registered: 2008-06-04

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Re: Hard drive mounts on boot

@FLCLFan:

Try something like:

/dev/sdb1    /media/usb_drive    ntfs-3g    noauto,rw,users    0 0

where /dev/sdb1 is the path to the partition (you can get this by typing mount at the CLI, and it'll show you the device path), /media/usb_drive is the path to mount point, and rw,users are the other options you might want (assuming you want to write to the drive, and for your normal user to mount/unmount it).

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

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Re: Hard drive mounts on boot

When I boot my computer I see that my other hard drive get mounted automatically. How do I stop this HDD from being auto mounted?

Assuming you run gnome, this isn't the first time this is covered;
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=55876

EDIT: you need to supply more info when posting a topic such as this. It's easier to help when we know the variables involved.

Last edited by pelle.k (2008-10-08 17:45:29)

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FLCLFan

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Re: Hard drive mounts on boot

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

That fixed my problem

Thanks for the link!