How do I stop Fedora 9 from automounting my dual-boot system's Windows XP partition? The partition doesn't seem to be in /etc/fstab or in GNOME's Applications > System Tools > Disk Management.

-Thanks, LloydM

Can you confirm that the partition is automounted? Did you try the mount command to check this? In my experience, internal drives that are not in fstab are not automounted.

You can setup fstab to prevent automounting, google for "disable fstab automount" to find out how.

in fedora 9 partitions and drives are auto mounted
In my exp. most of the time when this question is asked it really means " HOW do i get ride of that annoying icon on my gnome desktop"
is this what you mean ?
-- or --
do you want to ( by hand) type
every time you want to access that drive
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if it is the icon
then add the windows drive to fstab
and reboot
installing "autofs" may also be required.
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install " gconf-editor"
yum install gconf-editor
and uncheck
apps/nautilus/desktop/"volumes_visible"

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or add " noauto " to the fstab to stpo auto mount
see

I want the WinXP partition to be completely invisible and inaccessible from Linux, while leaving everything else as-is:

- vfat shared partition automounted as /vfat (no desktop icon)
- external USB device icon on desktop when connected
- CD/DVD icon on desktop when disk inserted

BTW what is the correect term for "mounting" a drive without putting it in /etc/fstab or making it a mount point?

-Thanks, LloydM

well use the noauto in fstab ,or shut down autofs or hal and be forced to mount by hand any usb device .
or you could uninstall ntfs-3g

Assuming you want to block it from everyone except root, you could mount the FS to a mount point(in fstab) that only root has read permissions on. That would prevent all users (excluding root) from having access to the FS.

Edit: Just as a general rule in Linux: if something is being particularly hard to prevent, take a step back. Usually it is easier to control HOW something is being done, than to prevent it from being done.

I'm having the same problem. I have several partitions (Windows, Shared NTFS, Ubuntu, Fedora 10).

The Windows and Ubuntu should not auto-mount. They should mount and show up on the desktop when I choose to mount them.

The Shared partition I have successfully set up to auto-mount without showing up on the desktop by adding it to /etc/fstab.

How do I get the other partitions to stop mounting at boot, though? This just works in Ubuntu.

Same advice as in #6.

Okay, now the automounting that gnome does (launches? instigates?) is bugging me too. I'm using Fedora 9 and nothing was automounted until after I used gnome-volume-properties (I'm pretty sure). Other accounts that login with gnome do _not_ automount these partitions ... what changed and how can I change it back?

What _gnome_ config item needs to be set/changed so that partitions on a fixed hard drive are _not_ automounted? [Yes, I'll mount them manually if I need them.]

There must be a gnome control (or should be) since these other partitions are not mounted at boot and are not mounted when logging in with other window managers. [And no, I do not want to modify fstab. Gnome should be controllable, yes?]

Thanks for your consideration.

Okay, if you just want to prevent gnome from mounting specific partitions, you can issue commands like this (as a normal user).

$ gnome-mount --write-settings --mount-options noauto --device /dev/sda1
$ gnome-mount --write-settings --mount-options noauto --device /dev/sda3

[These are the original NTFS partitions that came with my laptop.]

The above commands will write some files under ~/.gconf that will essentially block HAL from automounting the partitions.