Michael Hennebry wrote: > 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. autofs is what's mounting it. But if you turn it off, you'll have to manually mount anything that's not in /etc/fstab. Sounds like gnome's trying to be WinDoze.... mark