Re: Re: [trinity-users] Re: Disabling USB hard drive auto mount - tde-users

11 Jun 2018

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  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 :)
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 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 
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  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