Re: How to keep gnome from automatically mounting USB thumb-drive every time I log in?

[Daryl Styrk <darylstyrk@gmail.com>]

Rick Thomas wrote:
> How can I prevent a USB thumb-drive from auto-mount-ing every time I log
> in.  I'd like it to require a manual operation to get it mounted.  For
> reasons that I won't go into here, it lives nearly all the time inserted
> in a USB slot on the CPU.  But for most login sessions I do not need to
> use it and I don't like to see it cluttering up my desktop.
> 
> Is there any way to have it only be mounted when I manually issue a
> "mount" command?
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Rick
> 
> 

If you are using gnome, you can have a look at
System>Preferences>Removeable Drives and Media.