Preventing USB automount
john wendel
jwendel10 at comcast.net
Tue Nov 4 03:14:20 UTC 2008
Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:18:55 -0600 (CST)
> "Steve Berg" <sberg at mississippi.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy rule to create for udev that will turn off that function?
>
> I don't know about "easy", but I'm sure it can be done. Here is an
> example of a file I have in my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ directory thanks
> to the folks on the hal mailing list who helped me figure it out:
>
> filename is: 10-stop-hal-stop.fdi
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> <device>
> <match key="volume.label" string="BACKUP">
> <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
> </match>
> </device>
> </deviceinfo>
>
> This tells hal not to notify anyone about the disk partition
> on my removable USB drive named "BACKUP"
>
> The lshal utility can tell you zillions of things about the
> devices hal knows about which would probably let you eventually
> construct some keys to match to do what you want to do by
> ignoring removable devices.
>
Or you could take the easy way out (like I do), "chkconfig haldaemon
off". I don't miss it at all.
Regards,
John
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