Silent mounting of disks? Unwanted.

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 18 November 2009, Andy Campbell wrote:
>> So, how did those 6 partitions get mounted?  Inquiring minds want to
>> know.  I didn't do it, and I'm the only operator here.
>
>This may not be true for F10, but on F11 it would be worth checking
>Authorizations, on F11 its System->Preferences->Authorizations.
>
>Look for disks -> Mount a system-internal device
>
>If its enabled for your account, or Active console, then they get
>automatically mounted.
>
>One workaround I found is to explicitly include the filesystem in /etc/
>fstab.  But add the option noauto this stops it getting mount e.g.
>
>  ... ext3    noauto,defaults 0 0 ...
>
>Andy
>
That may be a way to stop it, but it has never happened before, and I would 
rather find out what did do it.

Thanks Andy.

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