Re: how do I stop automount of Hitichi Lifestudio USB drive

[Fred Smith <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 03:34:53PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> 
> Most of the time, if I plug a USB drive into my computer,
> gnome/centos/whatever will ask me what I want to do with it.
> With a Hitachi Lifestudio, all the partitions mount without asking me.
> 
> How do I stop that behavior?
> 
> My suspicion is that the same kind of
> mechanism is what makes candy drops work.
> So far as I know, my backup drive is not candy,
> but I would still like to be able to control my computer.

Not sure, but if  you made entries for it in /etc/fstab that
explicitly said not to mount, that might do the trick.

It looks as if the "noauto" option should do the trick.

Fred
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