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Disabling USB hard drive auto mount
by Kate Draven 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hi people (and others) I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out how to disable the auto mount function for usb hard drives. Every time I connect a HD via a usb HD dock. It auto mounts the drive. Is there anyway to stop this? I think it's udisksd or something. Google was useless regarding how to disable it. I'm asking PCLinuxOS people but I expect I'll get an answer here faster. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Kate

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why consolekit & policykit & elogind?
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hi all! This question might be a bit OT (and probably totally useless for the systemd-fraction), but ... what is the purpose of need consolekit & policykit & elogind ? I observed consolekit creating hordes of children, resulting in ~ 5% cpu usage. I deleted consolekit & policykit & elogind, restarted the system and found everything still working perfectly. So, what are these good for? Is TDE depending on these in any way? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] TOTALLY off-topic - got a puzzle meets dinosaurs & dragons
by Kate Draven 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

T-Drago A wee lizard with great but silly powers. Like the ability to give people uncontrollable flatulence. It's late. I need sleep. GN to all Kate

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] <off topic> Disabling USB hard drive auto mount
by Kate Draven 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

> On 06/12/2018 07:54 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > On 06/12/2018 06:09 PM, Kate Draven wrote: > > >> help because it's rarely the same drive twice. This becomes a problem > >> when/because I'm working on client drive data recovery. > >> > >> I appreciate the help though, > >> > >> Thank you Jimmy > >> > >> Kate > > > Kate I made my living working in the field or at a bench doing > computer/network related repairs or installs, I took a laptop with me in > the field that ran 'Puppy Linux', small and fast with all the tools a > tech needs on a little live .iso. This was before systemd, but Puppy is > still without systemd. > https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10053 > > Cheers, > -- > Jimmy Johnson > > Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 > Registered Linux User #380263 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- HI Jimmy Aye, I've used puppylinux, slackware, RH, Mandrake, DSL, gentoo and a few others. But it's KDE's (now TDE) power that keeps me to distros that run it. Honestly if TDE were on slackware, that's where I'd go. Me next choice would be Debian were it not for systemD, I don't trust it (gut feeling). Then any RPM distro like pclos. The only problem I'm having with pclos is this automount thing. I have been able to confirm it's udisks2 that's automounting the drives. No matter what setting I use. With all that being said. I truly appreciate all the input (INPUT! points to anyone who can name the film). Keep it coming. Kate

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A message from Patrick J. Volkerding <Slackware>
by Jimmy Johnson 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Devuan or Trinity can borrow anything they find useful from the current tree. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

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Slightly OT: The Thompson-Davis Editor
by Leslie Turriff 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

I'm using the source code for the open-source Thompson-Davis Editor <http://adoxa.altervista.org/tde/>, "a simple, public domain, multi-file, multi-window binary and text file editor written for IBM PCs and close compatibles running DOS, Win32 (console) or Linux" to learn C and curses programming. You may have noticed its coincidental acronym :-) and yes, it stores it's configuration information in $TDEHOME. TDE is small but non-trivial, and I think it will be a good resource for someone like me, who is attempting to get a grip on programming in the *nix environment; it's not so big as to be overwhelming, yet not as useless as HelloWorld.c. Thoughts? Leslie

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] Re: Disabling USB hard drive auto mount
by Kate Draven 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

> n 06/11/2018 03:51 PM, Kate Draven wrote: > >> On Monday 11 June 2018 18:42:41 Kate Draven wrote: > >> > >>>> Kate Draven wrote: > >>>> > > So, not takers on how to disable auto mounting of external HDs? > > > > Kate > Control Panel>Peripherals>storage media>mime types(unmounted > storage)>select a deive a "toggle automount" button is highlighted. > > On my box when I plug in a device I get a popup window asking "what to > do"..ie no auto mounting. None of my devices hace the "toggle ..." > feature enabled. > > Not sure this is a solution to your issue, hesitant to play with my > settings as it working "fine now"tm. > > greg I did check that section but only quickly. I'll check into this. I didn't check each section. There may be more to review than I initially thought. Thanks Greg, Kate

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] Re: Disabling USB hard drive auto mount
by Kate Draven 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

> On Monday 11 June 2018 18:42:41 Kate Draven wrote: > > > > Kate Draven wrote: > > > > Hi people (and others) > > > > > > I am not aware that cats are members of this list :) > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >- > > > > If cats had their way, they would be overlords. > > And yes, they have infiltrated the organization. > > > > Kate > > And they, I take it, have delegated the food bowl and excrement pan > maintenance to you? Its a dirty job, but I suppose somebody has to do > it. > > -- > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- And I have to feed them too... So, not takers on how to disable auto mounting of external HDs? Kate

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] Re: Disabling USB hard drive auto mount
by Kate Draven 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

> On Monday 11 June 2018 16:51:26 Kate Draven wrote: > > > On Monday 11 June 2018 18:42:41 Kate Draven wrote: > > > > > Kate Draven wrote: > > > > > > Hi people (and others) > > > > > > > > > > I am not aware that cats are members of this list :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >- > > > > > > > > If cats had their way, they would be overlords. > > > > And yes, they have infiltrated the organization. > > > > > > > > Kate > > > > > > And they, I take it, have delegated the food bowl and excrement pan > > > maintenance to you? Its a dirty job, but I suppose somebody has to do > > > it. > > > > > > -- > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > -- > > > > And I have to feed them too... > > > > So, not takers on how to disable auto mounting of external HDs? > > > > Kate > > > > I believe that you can disable automounting by opening up Konqueror: > media:/ > Right-click on the icon for that item, then you can go to > Properties > Mounting > and check your mount options. > > Try doing as your username first; if you still have problems, then open up > Konqueror as root: > tdesu konqueror > and try again. (Of course, all the usual precautions about running anything as > root.) Messing up your mount options can make external HDDs a headache. > > If this doesn't work, then you probably want to examine these files: > /etc/fstab > /etc/mtab > However, I try not to mess with these, if everything else has been running > fine until now. If you try to disable automount for a new HDD, you may > inadvertently change mounting options for other drives, which will be worse. > > Bill > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks lad, I'll give it a go in the morning. Update everyone then. Kate

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] Re: Disabling USB hard drive auto mount
by Kate Draven 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

> On Monday 11 June 2018 19:51:26 Kate Draven wrote: > > > > On Monday 11 June 2018 18:42:41 Kate Draven wrote: > > > > > Kate Draven wrote: > > > > > > Hi people (and others) > > > > > > > > > > I am not aware that cats are members of this list :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >---- - > > > > > > > > If cats had their way, they would be overlords. > > > > And yes, they have infiltrated the organization. > > > > > > > > Kate > > > > > > And they, I take it, have delegated the food bowl and excrement pan > > > maintenance to you? Its a dirty job, but I suppose somebody has to > > > do it. > > > > > > -- > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > -- > > > > And I have to feed them too... > > > > So, not takers on how to disable auto mounting of external HDs? > > > > Kate > > > Heck, right now I've two, decade old red sata, both of which has succumed > to the ravages of the red dye used in the cable. So before I can update > from wheezy, I'll have to find someplace that has sata cables that > aren't that hot red color. If you have some red ones in your systems, > order replacements that are any color but red, because you WILL replace > the reds ones sooner or later, usually under 5 years later. > > Thats another way of saying I am not automounting 2 of the 3 drives in a > hot swap cage. > > Now we're back on topic, sorta, but I'm no help. But I also have a very > faded memory of doing something in /lib/udev/rules.d to stop that, but > its much of a half decade back up the log and even then my short term > memory was starting to get fuzzy. And I don't see an obviously out of > date, newer version of anything disk related in /lib/udev/rules.d. That > may not be where I putzed with it. Poor memory, the curse of the > so-called golden years. > > What ever, it was interfering with the blkid based mounting > in /etc/fstab. > > -- > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- I was thinking the same thing, using blkid, but I have to first deal with the dreaded automount. The problem with that is, the drives are never the same. These are client drive (mostly crackmonkeys) in need of data retrieval. Someone will have an answer. As for ancient computers. Glad to see I'm not the only Dr Frankenstein here. Me first computer was comprised of about 27 different computers I found in the rubbish over a period of months about 30 something years back. Still doing it, I've built some amazing machines. A lot of them even worked without blazing into a fireballs. Kate

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