New FC8 install: How to prevent auto-mounting???

[Bob Marcan]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:17:11 -0500
"Mark C. Allman" <mcallman at allmanpc.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:07 -0500, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 18:31 +0100, François Patte wrote:
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> > > Le 31.01.2008 18:10, Mark C. Allman a écrit :
> > > > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 11:56 -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> > > > I use mc from a konsole to do my file browsing. I'm quite comfortable
> > > > with using mount & umount from the command line as needed. I really
> > > > dislike finding filesystems already mounted when I expressly set them up
> > > > with the noauto option in my /etc/fstab. How can I stop it from
> > > > happening?
> > > > 
> > > > I'd actually prefer a root command line solution that will
> > > > make it impossible for kde to turn automounting back on.
> > > > 
> > > > In case it matters, I boot to runlevel 3 and start kde via startx as
> > > > needed. 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > > I ran into the exact same thing last night.  A file system marked
> > > > "noauto" was mounted at boot time.  I had to comment out the line
> > > > in /etc/fstab and hack around the problem (put something in rc.local)
> > > > but it's a royal hack, not a solution.
> > > 
> > > The culprit is gnome or kde... for kde, I don't know, but for gnome you
> > > have a System>Preferences>Removable medias (something like that) where
> > > you can choose what you want.
> > > 
> > > Anyway there is some problem there: as cd/dvd devices are no more
> > > mentionned in fstab, I think that if you don't use auto-mount, you will
> > > be unable to mount your cd/dvd if you are not root....
> > > 
> > > This is boring: same happens if you want to format a cd/dvd/usb-key...
> > > whatever, you cannot unmount them to perform the operation if you are
> > > not root...
> > > 
> > > - --
> > > François Patte
> > 
> > The problem is definitely not gnome or kde.  The mount happens at boot
> > time, right after udev.  Also, the line I had in fstab was mounting a
> > usb 250GB external hard drive.  No CD or DVD drives involved.
> > 
> > I see the LVM find my logical volume (VolGrp00/LogVol00, or something
> > similar), I see udev "start" (I can't remember the line in the
> > start-up--I think it says "starting udev"), then I see an error saying
> > the drive with a specific label can't be found.  I can then provide the
> > root password to get in and fix the problem.  The drive with the label
> > that can't be found is marked "noauto" in fstab.  I've had it marked
> > "auto" and everthing's worked for the past three months, but suddenly
> > last night it stopped working so I tried "noauto" to skip the mount at
> > boot time.  The disk has the same, correct label--I checked.  I switched
> > back to "auto" and just commented out the whole line in fstab, rebooted
> > the system to run level 3, uncommented the line in fstab  and ran "mount
> > -a" with no errors, so I know it's not the disk label.  I suspect it's
> > something with the disk device (/dev/sdb1, I believe) not being found.
> > But why "noauto" doesn't prevent the device from being mounted at boot
> > time is a mystery.  
> > 
> > As I type this an idea to test just occurred to me, so I'll try it
> > tonight when I get back to my office.
> > 
> > -- Mark C. Allman, PMP
> > -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc.
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> > 
> Also, this is with kernels 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 and 2.6.23.14-107.fc8 (the
> latest kernel).
> 
> -- Mark C. Allman, PMP
> -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc.
> -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263
> 
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