how to stop mandrake/kde from automounting nonexistent removable devices at startup?

pdmackenzie · 11-07-2004, 04:07 PM

I believe that mandrake/kde's habit of allowing users to un/mount devices windows style, ie. without having to explicitly un/mount them is causing my system to freeze (the desktop is showing the usb port devices as mounted, even when there is nothing in the usb ports). Is there a way I can force mandrake to force me to mount and unmount these devices explicitly?

thank in advance,
doug

ps. at least I hope that this is what the problem is. I also notice during the boot sequence I see the message:
checking for new hardware [FAILED]

65_289 · 11-07-2004, 04:39 PM

In /etc/fstab, add "noauto" without quotes in the options for that device. Like this:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user 0 0

That is for my USB flash drive.

pdmackenzie · 11-07-2004, 04:51 PM

when opening fstab in vim as root, I receive this message before the file is displayed:

"fstab" 11L, 809C
E576: viminfo: Missing '>' in line: :^@

I don't know if this affects anything, but it certainly makes me nervous.

Anyhoo, I have altered the relevant line in fstab to
none /mnt/removable2 noauto dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0

it originally read:
none /mnt/removable2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0

Will this have the desired effect?

thanks
doug

Nobber · 11-08-2004, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Anyhoo, I have altered the relevant line in fstab to
none /mnt/removable2 noauto dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0

it originally read:
none /mnt/removable2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0

Will this have the desired effect?

Probably not.

If this device is a USB memory stick, and you want to mount and unmount it yourself explicitly, you first want to turn off supermount for the device. You should be able to do that somewhere in the Mandrake Control Center. Otherwise create an entry for the device in your fstab that looks something like this:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/removable2 vfat noauto,noatime,user 0 0

Then the filesystem on the device will be mounted only when you click the relevant desktop icon or device in Konqueror etc.