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Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM?



On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 09:13:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

> I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem.
> That Jessie (and IIRC Squeeze) automatically mount the cdrom drive every
> time the drawer is closed is a nuisance requiring to manually run umount
> before I can proceed.
> 
> /etc/fstab has noauto under options.

Probably nothing to do with your problem. From fstab(5)

  noauto do not mount when "mount -a" is given (e.g., at boot time)
 
> Where else should I look.
> I would prefer to disable on a per session basis.
> Total disabling is acceptable.

Automounting is usually handled by the file manager of whatever DE you
are using.


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