Stop automounting other partitions

[SlickUSA]

I have F9 on a laptop that dual boots with WinXP.

When i log in and the desktop shows that the NTFS partition is mounted with a shortcut on the desktop. Is there a way to make it not automount? Trivial inconvenience, but i thought i'd ask anyway.

[blinky]

create a file with following data (called 99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi) and place in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor, reboot and they should disappear from desktop.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- --> 

<!-- lives in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor -->

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
  <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
    <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="false">
      <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
    </match>
  </match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

used to be there in fedora 8, but they removed it for some reason in Fedora 9+

[SlickUSA]

That did the trick. Where'd you find that bit of code?

Thanks

[Lakshmipathi]

This page (though it seems to old ) has more info about HAL
redhat.com | HAL

[rituraj.goswami]

well i found that i if you add the noauto option thaen ut dosn't mount the ntfs partition.

[SlickUSA]

well i found that i if you add the noauto option thaen ut dosn't mount the ntfs partition.

Where does "noauto" get added to?

[blinky]

With "noauto" I found the partition still showed up on the desktop (that was with fedora 9 - I did'nt bother trying fedora 10, but that's another story). I usually have several partitions that are not related to the current installation (1 * XP, at least 2 other distributions) on most of my machines and since my son (9) uses most of the machines as well I don't want him to accidentally ruin my other installations I prefer that the partitions not be shown on the desktop.

Not sure if it's the fedora developers or gnome developers but after fedora 8 time someone's lost their grip on usability/reality.