[SOLVED] Unmount drive

[chejose]

On a new installation of 7.10 it put two drives on desktop, one that I use, and the other useless.

How can I tell Ubuntu that that drive does not to be mounted, and even less put on the desktop?

Many thanks,

José

[darkrose0510]

Hi José,

You will need to edit /etc/fstab and remove the drive you don't want mounted from there.

Open a terminal and run:

mount

This will return a list of all mounted file systems. Find the device you don't want mounted (it'll be something like /dev/hda4) and unmount it:

sudo umount /dev/hda4

check you haven't unmounted the wrong thing, if it's the right one then open /etc/fstab in an editor:

sudo vi /etc/fstab

Find the line for the drive you don't want mounted, and move the cursor to it with the up/down arrow keys
Then delete the line by pressing d twice
Save and exit by typing:

:wq

and the drive won't mount automatically anymore.

[chejose]

Many thanks for the very clear explanation of what to do. Problem solved.

José