GUI root login and NTFS mounts?

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Jerry Williams wrote:
> When I login as root with the GUI my NTFS file systems get mounted.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> And I don’t want them all mounted either.
> 
I found the following resolved the problem for me (from an oldish thread):

> maybe related to this
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-May/msg00935.html
> 
> IIRC (?)
> 
> 
> Old stuff:
> 
> Fedora 7 has a file called
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi
> to prevent this from happening, here's its contents:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
> 
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> <device>
>   <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
>     <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="false">
>       <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
>     </match>
>   </match>
> </device>
> </deviceinfo>
> 
> If that file is no longer there in Fedora 8, try adding it and see if
> that 
> helps.
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
> -- Ronald Warsow <rwarsow at gmx.de> 


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