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TSP

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Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 22

Hal automount question

I new to arch and so far i like it!
I am dealing wuth hal to automount my other partitions, i when i use nautilus i have listed at list 8 partitions/devices wich HAL mount.
How can i configure this, to only mount what i want? for example i have sabayon linux installed in one partion and i don't want hal to mount this, but at the same time, i want my mp4 player or my dvd device automounted.

PD: In this case is better if i use fstab?

thanks ain advance! and thanks for this great OS

xabbott

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From: orlando, fl

Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 56

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Re: Hal automount question

I've also been wondering this myself. I want to hide/disbale the root partition of another Linux distro.

I don't have the other partition in my fstab but it continues to be seen and mounted (in Gnome).

xabbott

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From: orlando, fl

Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 56

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Re: Hal automount question

TSP, I ended up trying this "outdated" tip and it worked.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL

As root, create a file named 90-user-methods.fdi in /etc/hal/fdi/policy. Then paste the following in

<xml> 
<deviceinfo>
 <device>
   <match>
<merge>true</merge>
       <match>
               <merge>false</merge>
                <merge>true</merge>
       </match>
   </match>
 </device>
</deviceinfo>

Then restart HAL, /etc/rc.d/hal restart.

Cheers.