On Mon 25 Feb 2019 at 08:55:58 (-0600), Mark Allums wrote: > On 2/25/19 8:48 AM, Curt wrote: > > On 2019-02-25, Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> wrote: > > > > > > This is not satisfactory. Surely there is a way to neutralize a running > > > gvfsd/fuse mount on a device without reinstalling to whole OS. > > > > man gvfsd says: > > > > ENVIRONMENT > > GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE > > If this environment variable is set, gvfsd will not start the > > fuse filesystem. > > > > So maybe something like > > > > GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE=1 > > export GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE > > > > might be of aid in your neutralization efforts. > > Doesn't work.
No surprise there then. But when I pointed out this variable yesterday, I warned that setting this variable so that it gets noticed might not be straightforward. So writing "Doesn't work" doesn't really cut it, not to put too fine a point on it. And my other suggestion? > > Or perhaps simply: > > > > gconftool --type Boolean --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount > > false > > > > If not, sorry, and my respects to Martha. > > > > I don't use Gnome/Nautilus. MATE and/or Xfce. Perhaps booting into single user mode (root) is brutal enough. Cheers, David.