[SOLVED] How to prevent auto-mount a specific USB drive

mfoley · 01-23-2016, 10:30 PM

I have just installed 15.10. I need to prevent a specifi USB drive from auto-mounting because it is used as an external backup drive and should not be normally visible. However, I do still want users to be able to have their own USB device auto-mounted when inserted.

With 14.04 I used instructions such as: http://askubuntu.com/questions/30112...-auto-mounting to create a udev rule (although I never really tested it), but 15.10 does not ship with udisks and `apt-get install udisks` gives "No installation candidate".

How do I accomplish this on 15.10?

Emerson · 01-24-2016, 03:01 PM

Have you tried putting it in fstab by UID and noauto option?

mfoley · 01-25-2016, 06:43 PM

Well, that worked just fine! I wonder why the complex udev rule solution is the only one I found posted -- which I don't think works anyway unless the automounted drive has actually been mounted.