Preventing USB automount

[john wendel]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:18:55 -0600 (CST)
> "Steve Berg" <sberg at mississippi.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is there an easy rule to create for udev that will turn off that function?
> 
> I don't know about "easy", but I'm sure it can be done. Here is an
> example of a file I have in my /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ directory thanks
> to the folks on the hal mailing list who helped me figure it out:
> 
> filename is: 10-stop-hal-stop.fdi
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> 
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>   <device>
>     <match key="volume.label" string="BACKUP">
>        <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
>     </match>
>   </device>
> </deviceinfo>
> 
> This tells hal not to notify anyone about the disk partition
> on my removable USB drive named "BACKUP"
> 
> The lshal utility can tell you zillions of things about the
> devices hal knows about which would probably let you eventually
> construct some keys to match to do what you want to do by
> ignoring removable devices.
> 

Or you could take the easy way out (like I do), "chkconfig haldaemon 
off". I don't miss it at all.

Regards,

John