How does autofs/udev decide where to mount partitions?

[Steve]

---- Todd Denniston <Todd.Denniston at ssa.crane.navy.mil> wrote: 
> McGuffey, David C. wrote, On 01/12/2009 12:25 PM:
> > 
> >> I'm trying to figure out how my Windows partition gets automagically

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> 
> as Rahul Sundaram said some time back...
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-March/msg02024.html
> controlling how and when drives are mounted is obfuscated somewhere in the 
> layers of
> "Udev. HAL, DBus and gnome-volume-manager/KDE equivalent.
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7745
> "
> 
> 
> also useful reading:
> "Howto prevent F9 from mounting all mountable partitions"
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-September/msg00862.html
> "How to hide a disk?"
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-December/msg01207.html
> 
> And Uh No I don't have it figured out yet either.

Thanks for those links. The http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7745 article is a good starting point but it doesn't go nearly far enough. I need to start googling and man page reading.

Steve.