How do I keep Fedora 9 from automounting all of my hard drive partitions?
Tom Horsley
tom.horsley at att.net
Tue Jul 8 12:49:17 UTC 2008
> I am using /dev/sda as my primary hard drive. I have another hard
> drive, /dev/sdb that I use as a backup. When I log in to a Gnome
> desktop (haven't tried anything else yet), all of my /dev/sdb partitions
> are auto-mounted. How do I keep this from happening? They don't appear
> in /etc/fstab, and they aren't mounted if I boot into runlevel 3 for
> example. I cannot find any settings anywhere to control this, and I
> don't know exactly what process is responsible.
You need to appease HAL:
http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/linux-tidbits.html#Hide%20Backup%20Disk
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