How to disable automounting in SLAX?

Albo74 · 03-21-2009, 02:37 PM

Greetings Linux folks,
I am relatively new to Linux so please bear me. I have done the Google but not quite found an answer. So here goes, I am looking to test out SLAX for some computer security and forensics work and would love to stop it from automounting HDDs or peripheral devices.

Can anyone tell me what I need to edit or change in order to make no automounting a persistent change. I know you can enter "noauto" during startup, but I would like completely disable automounting and only manually mount the device I want mounted.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

weibullguy · 03-21-2009, 04:41 PM

Edit or create the file /etc/hal/policy/preferences.fdi. For each volume you don't want to automount add the <device></device> section as shown below.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
   <match key="block.device" string="/dev/sda1">
      <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
   </match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>