Hello,

I have Fedora Core 5. I've plugged a usb drive in and it mounts automatically and umounts all by itself. Can someone tell me please how to stop that. I want to do this for practise and get used to using linux.

When i type mount here's what it says:

automount(pid1750)on /net type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=1750, minproto=2, maxproto=4) /dev/sda1 on /media/disk type vfat (rw, noexec, nosuid, nodev, shortname=winnt,uid=500)

Does that miniproto and maxproto refer to the time the usb stick is allowed to be plugged in?

Thanks for your help.

Michshelly

No idea. But you might try editing the /etc/fstab file and on the line for /dev/sda1 add noauto to the options column.

Hello pljvaldez

I managed to put noauto in the line by typing vi /proc/mounts

The only the is this file is a read only. I shall find out to edit this read-only file and hopefully this will stop the USB stick from automatically mounting and hopefully some others may have answered by then if we are in correct.

Thanks again for your help.

michshelly

I don't think that you're supposed to edit stuff in /proc because those are currently running process information, IIRC. /etc/fstab should be the file or try man automount to see if there's another config file.

No, it doesn't. Those are for the automount line, which is not related to your USB stick.

You might try it, but it won't work. I've said it before and I'll say it again: the noauto option has nothing to do with automatic mounting. If you don't believe me, just read the man page for mount. The only thing setting the noauto option flag on a device in /etc/fstab will do is prevent it from mounting on boot. If you don't insert the device until after the system is booted, then this option doesn't do anything.

On modern Linux distributions, automounting when a device is inserted is handled by a volume manager like gnome-volume-manager, ivman, or KDE's storage media manager. Your volume manager should have some settings to adjust what actions are taken when a device is inserted. I don't know anything about the gnome-volume-manager, but I can offer specifics on KDE if you're using that.