Disabling Nautilus automount for external hd on Mint 6

midnightreport · 05-23-2009, 04:21 PM

Hello friends,

I have been using Linux Mint 6 for a few months now, but this is my first post to the forums. Loving Linux so far, by the way.

Anyway, my n00b question. Awhile back, when I plugged in an external USB hard drive with Mint running, it would throw up a dialog box asking for my password for authorization to mount the drive. I recall checking a box saying something like "always automount"...

When I plug in my external hard drive, I want Nautilus to display the drive in the left-hand "Places" column, but NOT automatically mount the drive. How would I go about setting that up?

Thank you so much!

jamescondron · 05-23-2009, 04:24 PM

using gnome, you want

Code:

$ gnome-volume-preferences

Or at least, its the easiest way off the top of my head

midnightreport · 05-23-2009, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamescondron

using gnome, you want

Code:

$ gnome-volume-preferences

Or at least, its the easiest way off the top of my head

okay, I tried gnome-volume-preferences in a terminal, but it gives me "command not found". I tried this as root, with sudo, and hitting Alt+F2 for Run Application. I'm not really sure...am I doing something wrong?

jamescondron · 05-23-2009, 04:35 PM

Not at all, thats my fault sorry-

Code:

$ gnome-volume-properties

midnightreport · 05-23-2009, 05:19 PM

The gnome-volume-properties gave me options for cameras and peripherals, but not anything that worked with automounting removable storage. Anyway, I got it sort of working the way I want, by going to Control Center>Authorizations and forcing Admin Authentication under Active Console for org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable

Thanks for all your help though!

jamescondron · 05-23-2009, 05:24 PM

Ah no worries- though it should be the first tab in that programme. Good luck in the rest of linux, hopefully the rest is as intuitive for you