Hi All,

Whenever I'm plugging my external hard-disk to the usb port, its getting auto mounted.

Say, it has two partitions:

/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2

so, its getting auto mounted to /media/disk and /media/disk-1

My requirement is to manually mounting the partitions.

Can anybody tell me how to put off the automount feature?

Thanks,
Kosys

Which distro, which desktop? Does it happen when you're on a full-
screen console?


Cheers,
Tink

You don't say why, but if you want them always to show up in a certain place when you plug your disks in you should look at writing udev rules

There are plenty of examples.

Hi Tink,

Its RHEL 5.3 (server).

Thanks,
Kosys

In SUSE I have a work around for this issue: I allow my user account to sudo and run things like umount, mount, and fdisk. Then I have a script that uses "fdisk -l" to hunt down the device, and unmount it. Every device I use has a unique size measured in bytes and I have front end scripts that pass the size along to this first script. So, the device is unmounted and then remounted as whatever I've decide. And it does not matter where the system decided to auto mount my device.

Additionally, I have added KDE device "actions" so that I choose which script runs as soon as the system tells me its mounted.

It's a convenient way to get my device mounted as I want it, and the fact that it was auto mounted does not matter.

Vern