unwanted mount

Vassilios Kotoulas fedoralist at kotoulas.de
Thu Sep 15 23:40:34 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 10:37 -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote:

> > Is kjournald the mounter? Is it because it is an ext3 partition? My
> > other partitions are xfs.

> No, kjournald handles the ext3 journal for the filesystem.  Most likely
> the gnome-volume-manager is mounting the filesystem for you.  The fstab
> 'noauto' option stops it from being mounted at boot time.
> 
> Open the GConf editor then under desktop->gnome->volume_manager uncheck
> automount_drives.  Maybe that will help.  It looks like this option is
> all encompassing and may not be what you want if you use removable
> drives.

I unchecked "mount removable media when inserted" in
gnome-volume-properties and now hda3 is not mounted, but this is no
solution for me. I want CDs automounted. I think this is a bug and I
will report it to bugzilla.

thanks
vassilios





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