Re: gnome-volume-manager works *too* well!
Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> wrote:
> 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.
Wrong again! The _second_ time I switch the drive on, nothing is
mounted. The first time, my partitios are all nounted as before. It
has nothing to do with checking or unchecking `Browse removable
media'.
When I pin it down I'll hopefully come back with a definitive
behaviour report.
sdt
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