Automount

chipotphe · 12-01-2008, 12:46 AM

Hi,

I use Fedora9 installed in sda6
I have several unused partitions before. (these are formatted in fat16, ext3).
Each time when I start my F9, it "automounts" these partitions to /media/disk /media/disk-1 /media/disk-2 etc.

(This happens even with my primary fat16 partition for my dos)

I DO NOT WANT THIS.

How can I get rid of this ?

I have looked in the automount setup, I do not find any entry that justifies this "automounting".

billymayday · 12-01-2008, 01:34 AM

Are they mounted (typing mount as root will tell you). If not, it's possible that autofs mounts them. Have a look at /etc/auto.misc for a start.

I'll try an boot F9 later and have a look.

chipotphe · 12-01-2008, 01:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

Are they mounted (typing mount as root will tell you). If not, it's possible that autofs mounts them. Have a look at /etc/auto.misc for a start.

I'll try an boot F9 later and have a look.

Hi Billymaday,

There is nothing in /etc/auto.misc that justify the mounting of partitions to /media/disk. . . .

When I type "cat /etc/mtab" I see they are mounted. When I fire up GParted, I also see they are mounted.

Regrads,

billymayday · 12-01-2008, 02:16 AM

I don't get anything automounting ,so that doesn't help.

You don't have these entries in fstab?

Assuming not, why don't you follow the boot process closely (even run it interactively).

Edit -I actually should have referred you to auto.master, not auto.misc earlier.

chipotphe · 12-01-2008, 02:35 AM

These are my fstab and mtab

Quote:

$ cat /etc/fstab
# /dev/sda6
UUID=e73e09bb-d6f8-4124-b076-90f50dc5448c / ext3 defaults 1 1
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# sda5
# UUID=c1b409be-5220-462a-a13a-7b2bf6f85ff6 swap swap defaults 0 0
# new swap /dev/sda8
UUID=2b1bd6f4-2d98-4b23-91fc-4915e883af94 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0

$ cat /etc/mtab
/dev/sda6 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda7 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/phe/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=phe 0 0
/dev/sda9 /media/disk ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/disk-1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/disk-2 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0

Quote:

(parted) print all
Model: ATA MAXTOR STM380211 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
3 512B 32.3kB 31.7kB primary
1 32.3kB 107MB 107MB primary fat16
2 1645MB 8234MB 6588MB primary sun-ufs boot
4 8234MB 80.0GB 71.8GB extended
7 8234MB 8283MB 49.3MB logical ext3
8 8283MB 10.4GB 2147MB logical linux-swap
9 10.4GB 23.0GB 12.6GB logical ext3
5 26.1GB 27.6GB 1571MB logical ext3
6 28.8GB 39.3GB 10.5GB logical ext3

Are automounted and not wanted : sda1, sda5 and sda9

sda6 is my / Linux partition
sda7 is my /boot

james2b · 12-01-2008, 04:13 AM

I have this same issue of all formatted partitions mounted at boot up and show on the desktop too. I found out in a Linux book that to stop this auto mounting, just change the word;"defaults" to; "noauto" in /etc/fstab file as root user. So in a terminal do; "su -" for root, then to edit that file type; gedit /etc/fstab , which should open it to allow edit.

chipotphe · 12-01-2008, 05:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by james2b

I have this same issue of all formatted partitions mounted at boot up and show on the desktop too. I found out in a Linux book that to stop this auto mounting, just change the word;"defaults" to; "noauto" in /etc/fstab file as root user. So in a terminal do; "su -" for root, then to edit that file type; gedit /etc/fstab , which should open it to allow edit.

Have a look in my fstab !
You will notice that there are NO entries for these NOT wanted partitions !
So it will be difficult to change "default" to "noauto" for these lines.

I want that /dev/sda7 (/boot) and /dev/sda6 (/) and /dev/sd8 (swap) and all others in my fstab that these ARE automounted during boot !

Code:

$ cat /etc/fstab
# 
/dev/sda6
UUID=e73e09bb-d6f8-4124-b076-90f50dc5448c / ext3 defaults 1 1
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# sda5
# UUID=c1b409be-5220-462a-a13a-7b2bf6f85ff6 swap swap defaults 0 0
# new swap 
/dev/sda8
UUID=2b1bd6f4-2d98-4b23-91fc-4915e883af94 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 /boot ext3 defaults 0 0