On Monday 11 June 2018 16:51:26 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
>

I believe that you can disable automounting by opening up Konqueror: 
media:/
Right-click on the icon for that item, then you can go to 
Properties > Mounting 
and check your mount options. 

Try doing as your username first; if you still have problems, then open up 
Konqueror as root: 
tdesu konqueror 
and try again. (Of course, all the usual precautions about running anything as 
root.) Messing up your mount options can make external HDDs a headache. 

If this doesn't work, then you probably want to examine these files: 
/etc/fstab
/etc/mtab
However, I try not to mess with these, if everything else has been running 
fine until now. If you try to disable automount for a new HDD, you may 
inadvertently change mounting options for other drives, which will be worse. 

Bill