Stop auto mounting my pen drive

paul88 · 08-21-2012, 11:08 PM

Is there is any way that i don't want my pen drive to be automatically mounted when it is inserted

dudeman41465 · 08-21-2012, 11:22 PM

If using Gnome, uncheck the following checkbox in gconf.

/apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount

Or try running this as root (also if using Gnome):

Code:

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount false

If you're not using Gnome, you could try editing /etc/fstab if the device is listed there, not an expert on messing with that file though.

Here's the Google results:
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&output...w=1440&bih=762

sKaar · 08-22-2012, 07:28 AM

there's a noauto setting in fstab you can look up.

SharpyWarpy · 08-22-2012, 10:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paul88

Is there is any way that i don't want my pen drive to be automatically mounted when it is inserted

What distribution and what GUI (KDE, Gnome, etc) are you using? If you are using KDE go to the Menu and click on "System Settings" and navigate to "Hardware > Removable Devices" and uncheck "Enable automatic mounting of removable media".