how to turn OFF automount of media in Suse 11.1

[jrfk2]

I have Suse 11.1 and am running a customized server on it that will take care of mounting/unmounting media (DVD, USB key, etc) on its own ..

How can I get Suse to stop mounting the media automatically when I insert a dvd into the drive or plug in a USB key?

I already got it to stop opening a window showing the contents, now need to get it to stop mounting automatically ..

[Dave-Oregon]

Hi,

My Gawd, something I think I can actually answer!!! I'm still very new to Linux, and I "believe" this is teh correct answer for you...

Look in /etc/, you will find a file called fstab. It mounts devices upon boot...
You will probably find something that looks like this...


proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8,force 0 0
/dev/sdb5 none swap sw 0 0
#/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 auto user,auto 0 0



Note the entry for hdb, change "auto" to "noauto", I believe this will stop automount.

You should wait a bit to see if someone corrects me on this, but I am pretty sure this is one way...

Dave

[jrfk2]

Hi,

My Gawd, something I think I can actually answer!!! I'm still very new to Linux, and I "believe" this is teh correct answer for you...

Look in /etc/, you will find a file called fstab. It mounts devices upon boot...
You will probably find something that looks like this...


proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8,force 0 0
/dev/sdb5 none swap sw 0 0
#/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 auto user,auto 0 0



Note the entry for hdb, change "auto" to "noauto", I believe this will stop automount.

You should wait a bit to see if someone corrects me on this, but I am pretty sure this is one way...

Dave

Thanks for the try .. unfortunately if I turn the 1st "auto" to "noauto", it doesn't mount because the system is being told not to automatically detect the filesystem, which I would like to keep so I don;t have tomount -t every time as root ..

I am running Gnome for my shell on Suse 11 in case that helps anyone looking at this.

[reed9]

It's GNOME that handles automounting external media. I don't use GNOME and it's changed, I think, it more recent releases, so I'm not sure exactly where the preference options are, but look for something called Removable Drives and Media in the Preferences menu, or check for a Media tab in the Nautilus preference menu.

Failing that, using gconf-editor (you may need to install it), go to /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount and you should be able to change it.

[jrfk2]

It's GNOME that handles automounting external media. I don't use GNOME and it's changed, I think, it more recent releases, so I'm not sure exactly where the preference options are, but look for something called Removable Drives and Media in the Preferences menu, or check for a Media tab in the Nautilus preference menu.

Failing that, using gconf-editor (you may need to install it), go to /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount and you should be able to change it.

That was it .. went into the gnome configuration editor, searched on automount and turned it off .. thanks!!!