Re: automount and etc/fstab

[sigi <dugongs@gmx.de>]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 04:37:17PM -0400, Scott Reese wrote:
> sigi wrote:
> > Hi all, 
> > 
> > since I reinstalled my system, I'm wondering, why my second hdd is 
> > always mounted automatically after each new boot.
> > 
> > My /etc/fstab shows for this two partitions on this disk the following 
> > entries: 
> > 
> > /dev/hdb3       /daten1          ext3    noauto,rw,user  0       2
> > /dev/hdb1       /daten2          ext3    noauto,rw,user  0       2
> > 
> > I thought, that this entries should prevent the automount - and I 
> > think, this worked before.
> > 
> > Can anyone give me a hint, which other package manages the mount-options 
> > during boot-time? In the past it was everytime enough to edit 
> > /etc/fstab ...
> > 
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> Gnome has an auto-mounter that works with the hotplug system to pick up
> and mount CDs, USB-Sticks, and the like.  Perhaps that is picking up the
> drive and mounting it for you.  It picks up my /dev/sdc and mounts it
> without any intervention on the part of my /etc/fstab file.
> 
> Good luck.

Thanks a lot, this helped. 
Never heard of this annoying Windows-like option in Gnome - and didn't 
have it in my formerly installation. 

sigi.