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 -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) -----------------------------