I’m running opensuse 11.2 with gnome. When I plug in a USB disk. It automatically mounts those partitions that it recognizes. I’d rather it didn’t. It creates icons on the desktop although I’ve managed to stop it opening a file manager window for each partition.
But how do I stop the mounting altogether? I’ve looked in the menus, yast, gnome control centre and sysconfig editor but haven’t found anything. And google hasn’t given me any clues.
Ideally I think I’d like it to ask me whether to mount or not, but failing that I’d like it not to mount at all.
djh-novell wrote:
> Ideally I think I’d like it to ask me whether to mount or not, but
> failing that I’d like it not to mount at all.
i’m not a Gnome user, but i think when one first plugs in a USB
device (say a hard disk) the system will “see” it and offer a list of
things that can be done with that device…for example if it is a
disk or memory stick you might be offered to “Open in a new window”,
or if it is a camera (or jpeg holding memory stick) it might offer to
“Download Photos with digiKam”…
AND, on that same pop-up offering your options, is a little box which
says (on my machine) “Always do this for this type of media.” so, it
sounds like you (or someone else) checked that box in the past and
told HAL [Hardware Abstraction Layer] to always “open in a new window”…
i don’t know the easy way to make it UNremember what you (or someone)
told it to “Always do”…but, if you have anything different that you
(or someone) has not told it to remember what to do, THEN the first
time that new thing is plugged in you too will get that list of stuff
pop-up, and maybe while on your screen you will see a “Configure”
button or a menu list, and you can figure out how to make it forget
what it has been told to do, “Always”…
then, every time you plug in that unremembered type of appliance again
it will ask you what to do…
be sure and tell all others using your manchine to not tell HAL to
remember something you don’t want it to remember, “Always”…
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DenverD
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