On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Fred Smith wrote: > 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? > 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. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods