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

On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Fred Smith wrote:

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 03:34:53PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:

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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?

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.

That might work. I could add 30 entries to fstab: /dev/sd[cde][1-9]

My suspicion is that whatever is mounting the drive is treating it special and might ignore fstab. Ideally I'd learn the the name of the automounter and what database to edit.