Why is FC9 mounting my media again?

[Bill Davidsen]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:31:19 -0400
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> 
>> I really don't want the media mounted, or even the "blank CD" icon 
>> on the desktop, I want the optical devices totally ignored unless I manually 
>> mount them or burn to them.
> 
> Well, my way of avoiding that is to simply not run gnome or kde and
> not have nautilus (which seems to be the program triggering all this)
> active. You might try installing gconf-editor and seeing if there
> are any settings you can see in that to modify nautilus behavior
> (assuming you are using gnome - I don't know what the equivalent is
> for kde).
> 
> You could also investigate the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ directory and
> see about installing some xml magic in there to make hal stop telling
> nautilus anything happened. This, for instance, is my 10-stop-hal-stop.fdi
> file:

I think this is neat, and useful, but I kind of want ignore back a level, 
opening the device enough to look for a volume label is probably enough to mess 
up the application if it happens at the wrong time.

Thanks for the input, I do find the stanza useful, just not for solving the 
initial problem.
> 
> <?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>
> 
> It tells hal not to mention my USB drive with the partition labeled BACKUP,
> because I don't want it mounted most of the time (I just mount it during
> backups and keep it nice safe and unmounted at other times :-).
> 


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