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

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Thu Aug 13 17:52:26 UTC 2015


On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Jonathan Billings wrote:

> On Aug 12, 2015, at 5:22 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> 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....
>
> Its not ‘autofs’ specifically (which is a simple thing) but udev talking to udisks, allowing your login session to use udisks to mount the volumes if allowed by PolicyKit, speaking through dbus.

How do I get the ask-first behavior?
How do I tell what makes Lifestudio special?
When I plug in an SD card through a USB adapter,
something asks what I want to do and lists options.

In case it helps:
[root at localhost sata400-12-homes]# find / -name '*autofs*'
/lib/modules/2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64/kernel/fs/autofs4
/lib/modules/2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64/kernel/fs/autofs4/autofs4.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-504.23.4.el6.x86_64/kernel/fs/autofs4
/lib/modules/2.6.32-504.23.4.el6.x86_64/kernel/fs/autofs4/autofs4.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-573.1.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/fs/autofs4
/lib/modules/2.6.32-573.1.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/fs/autofs4/autofs4.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/fs/autofs4
/lib/modules/2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64/kernel/fs/autofs4/autofs4.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64/kernel/fs/autofs4
/lib/modules/2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64/kernel/fs/autofs4/autofs4.ko
/.autofsck
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sos/plugins/autofs.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sos/plugins/autofs.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sos/plugins/autofs.pyc
[root at localhost sata400-12-homes]#

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"SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical
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