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Hey im a linux noob and i've messed with the drives in the terminal and the drive keeps trying to automount to in the Windows 7 NTFS partition on Startup ...
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    MeatCleaver
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    How to disable Drive Automount in linux

    Hey im a linux noob and i've messed with the drives in the terminal and the drive keeps trying to automount to in the Windows 7 NTFS partition on Startup of Ubuntu 10.04, how do i disable this?
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    I'd put the partition into /etc/fstab with noauto option. See man fstab for details.
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    Hi and Welcome !

    Just remove the entry ( Put # sign at beginning ) of Windows 7 partition from /etc/fstab file.

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    # /dev/xyz  windows_partition mount line
    In case it doesn't work, post the output of df -h command and contents of /etc/fstab file here.
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    Yea ive found the file but it's a read only, sorry for being such a noob but how do you modify it
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    Quote Originally Posted by MeatCleaver View Post
    Yea ive found the file but it's a read only, sorry for being such a noob but how do you modify it

    Code:
    sudo gedit /etc/fstab
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    Its better to use gksu instead of sudo for GUI Applications.
    Press Alt+F2 and type this
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    gksu gedit /etc/fstab
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