Re: gnome-volume-manager works *too* well!

[Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>]

Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have an external firewire drive with several partitions on it, only
> one of which I need on a daily basis.  As soon as I switch it on,
> gnome-volume-manager mounts all (five) partitions.  Is there any way I
> can instruct gvm to ignore four of them?
>
> TIA
>
> sdt

Doh! I've realised why this is happening.

Gnome menu -> Desktop -> Preferences -> Removable Drives and Media

... provides three check boxes:

  Mount removable drives when hotplugged
  Mount removable media when inserted
  Browse removable media when inserted

I've unchecked the last of these three and *none* of my partitions are
being auto-mounted anymore, which is much better.

I'd have thought I'd have to uncheck the first of these but I suppose
switching the thing on is different from actually plugging it in?

Anyhow, this is much better because Disk Mounter creates a nice little
panel icon for mounting or unmounting the partitions on the drive,
provided I write corresponding fstab entries... which I've done.

Problem solved.

sdt