Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I have an external firewire drive with several partitions on it, only >> one of which I need on a daily basis. As soon as I switch it on, >> gnome-volume-manager mounts all (five) partitions. Is there any way I >> can instruct gvm to ignore four of them? >> >> TIA >> >> sdt > > Doh! I've realised why this is happening. > > Gnome menu -> Desktop -> Preferences -> Removable Drives and Media > > ... provides three check boxes: > > Mount removable drives when hotplugged > Mount removable media when inserted > Browse removable media when inserted > > I've unchecked the last of these three and *none* of my partitions are > being auto-mounted anymore, which is much better. > > I'd have thought I'd have to uncheck the first of these but I suppose > switching the thing on is different from actually plugging it in? > > Anyhow, this is much better because Disk Mounter creates a nice little > panel icon for mounting or unmounting the partitions on the drive, > provided I write corresponding fstab entries... which I've done.
Wrong again! The _second_ time I switch the drive on, nothing is mounted. The first time, my partitios are all nounted as before. It has nothing to do with checking or unchecking `Browse removable media'. When I pin it down I'll hopefully come back with a definitive behaviour report. sdt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
