F13: Do not mount CD/DVD when inserted into drive

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Fri May 28 00:29:23 UTC 2010


On 05/27/2010 02:50 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Greg Woods wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 21:12 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote:
>>>   a CD or DVD gets automatically mounted
>>> when inserted into the cd/DVD drive.
>>
>>> Where can I disable this behavier?
>>
>> System ->  Preferences ->  File Management ->  Media
>>
> Does this really work for you? I have mine set that way and when I put in a CD
> it is still read, mounted, the ISO label is read off the disk, and an icon
> displayed on the desktop with filesystem label. The media is left unmounted, but
> that certainly doesn't fit the "do nothing" choice the menu offers.
>
> You have to edit/delete udev rules to make it work right. That also fixes some
> CD burning issues when udev "peeks" at the media in the middle of a burn.

Have you unchecked the "Browse Media" box in that tab?
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