fedora8 how to stop all partitions automounting during bootup
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fedora8 how to stop all partitions automounting during bootup
Desktop is cluttered up with links to partitions that are very rarely used, and the ones I do use are inconveniently labeled.
So I'd like to stop automounting the ones not used and change the names of the ones that are.
I've checked /etc/fstab & mtab, /etc/auto.master and .misc, can't see any sign of them.
Anybody got any idea where/how to configure this?
Think they've done something new and funky!!!!
Here's fstab from fedora8 and core6, they look the same to me, but fedora8 has 9 partitions on the desktop that have appeared all by themselves.
i'm having the same problem.... it seems like a new feature in fedora 8. All NTFS partitions are automatically mounted as removable drives. This happening only in GNOME for me....
Yes, I'm sure it's a new added feature, and it's probably great if you only have a few partitions.
But I've got FC4, FC6, FC8, XP, a data partition and a music partition.
So auto mounted on the desktop, I have FC4, / and /boot, same for FC6, so that's 7 extra icons I don't really want.
I've made my own links to the data and music partitions, because the automount labels are confusing, (14.6 Gb Volume and 14.5 Gb Volume)
So it doesn't happen with KDE??? That's interesting, may be some feature of gnome then.
seems that file, (/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi)
is missing in FC8, one of the guys in that thread copied the file from FC7. I've just copied it from FC6, I'll report back when I reboot.
OK That's fixed, now I've got a nice clear desktop, thanks BitaBrotha for pointing that out.
So copying the above file from FC 6 or FC7 works, if you don't have an earlier version of FC, try this code, filed as, /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi
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