> 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