On Monday 11 June 2018 19:28:28 Kate Draven wrote: > > On Monday 11 June 2018 19:51:26 Kate Draven wrote: > > > > On Monday 11 June 2018 18:42:41 Kate Draven wrote: > > > > > > Kate Draven wrote: > > > > > > > Hi people (and others) > > > > > > > > > > > > I am not aware that cats are members of this list :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > >---- - > > > > > > > > > > If cats had their way, they would be overlords. > > > > > And yes, they have infiltrated the organization. > > > > > > > > > > Kate > > > > > > > > And they, I take it, have delegated the food bowl and excrement pan > > > > maintenance to you? Its a dirty job, but I suppose somebody has to > > > > do it. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > -- > > > > > > And I have to feed them too... > > > > > > So, not takers on how to disable auto mounting of external HDs? > > > > > > Kate > > > > Heck, right now I've two, decade old red sata, both of which has succumed > > to the ravages of the red dye used in the cable. So before I can update > > from wheezy, I'll have to find someplace that has sata cables that > > aren't that hot red color. If you have some red ones in your systems, > > order replacements that are any color but red, because you WILL replace > > the reds ones sooner or later, usually under 5 years later. > > > > Thats another way of saying I am not automounting 2 of the 3 drives in a > > hot swap cage. > > > > Now we're back on topic, sorta, but I'm no help. But I also have a very > > faded memory of doing something in /lib/udev/rules.d to stop that, but > > its much of a half decade back up the log and even then my short term > > memory was starting to get fuzzy. And I don't see an obviously out of > > date, newer version of anything disk related in /lib/udev/rules.d. That > > may not be where I putzed with it. Poor memory, the curse of the > > so-called golden years. > > > > What ever, it was interfering with the blkid based mounting > > in /etc/fstab. > > > > -- > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > I was thinking the same thing, using blkid, but I have to first deal with > the dreaded automount. The problem with that is, the drives are never the > same. These are client drive (mostly crackmonkeys) in need of data > retrieval. > > Someone will have an answer. > > As for ancient computers. Glad to see I'm not the only Dr Frankenstein > here. Me first computer was comprised of about 27 different computers I > found in the rubbish over a period of months about 30 something years back. > Still doing it, I've built some amazing machines. A lot of them even worked > without blazing into a fireballs. > > Kate A Frankenstein brand computer here, running a FrankenDebian OS. Bill