On 06/12/2018 06:09 PM, Kate Draven wrote: >> On 06/11/2018 01:28 AM, Kate Draven wrote: >>> Hi people (and others) >>> >>> I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out how to disable the auto mount >>> function for usb hard drives. >>> >>> Every time I connect a HD via a usb HD dock. It auto mounts the drive. >>> >>> Is there anyway to stop this? I think it's udisksd or something. Google > was >>> useless regarding how to disable it. >>> >>> I'm asking PCLinuxOS people but I expect I'll get an answer here faster. >>> >>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >>> >>> >>> Kate >> >> >> Hi Kate, you can write your drive to /etc/fstab using noauto. >> >> If you want to add it to fstab and need some help let us know the dev >> name or uuid, file system type and where you want to mount it, I use >> /home/jimmy/sdb1 or it could be /mount/sdb1 or /media/sdb1. Here's a >> example of how I handle sdb1 on this desktop. >> >> '/dev/sdb1 /home/jimmy/01-SDB1 ext4 noauto,users,exec,relatime 0 0' >> >> But what you're seeing seems to be a PC Linux OS thing and is not the >> behavior of devuan or debian. >> -- >> Jimmy Johnson >> >> Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 >> Registered Linux User #380263 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > I agree, it is a pclos thing. They use udisks2. Which is notorious for > automount problems. I can't uninstall it because trinity is dependant on it. > I know how to edit the fstab, but would rather not. It's also not going to > help because it's rarely the same drive twice. This becomes a problem > when/because I'm working on client drive data recovery. > > I appreciate the help though, > > Thank you Jimmy > > Kate I've tested pclos a few times over the years, I wanted to love it, but always got bitten, for me it was hardware that was not supported and we could not fix it. Here's one I've tested, it's a nice tight system with the Trinity Desktop, you can run it live and/or install and if you have the skills you can convert to a pure Trinity+Devuan system as none of the hocus pocus they've done is needed. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=exe It would be nice to see a Trinity+Devuan live .iso. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263