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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:34 am    Post subject: [solved] gnome-volume-manager mounting Windows partition Reply with quote

gnome-volume-manager is mounting my windows partition, but I don't want it to. How can I tell it which partitions to ignore?

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Take a look in the /etc/fstab, if there is your windows partition delete it, and linux don't automount it
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Impalatore-polacco wrote:
Take a look in the /etc/fstab, if there is your windows partition delete it, and linux don't automount it


They're not in there:

Code:

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sda2               /boot           ext3            noauto,noatime  1 2
/dev/sda4               /               ext3            noatime         0 1
/dev/sda3               none            swap            sw              0 0
#/dev/cdrom1            /mnt/cdrom      auto            ro              0 0
#/dev/dvd               /mnt/dvd        auto            ro              0 0
#/dev/fd0               /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto          0 0
/dev/sda1               /mnt/media      ntfs            umask=0222      0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
#  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm                     /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0


My Windows partitions that are being mounted that I don't want to be are /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda5.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In the fstab put
Quote:
#
at the beginnig of the line
Code:
/dev/sda1               /mnt/media      ntfs            umask=0222      0 0
you should have this fstab
Code:
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sda2               /boot           ext3            noauto,noatime  1 2
/dev/sda4               /               ext3            noatime         0 1
/dev/sda3               none            swap            sw              0 0
#/dev/cdrom1            /mnt/cdrom      auto            ro              0 0
#/dev/dvd               /mnt/dvd        auto            ro              0 0
#/dev/fd0               /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto          0 0
#/dev/sda1               /mnt/media      ntfs            umask=0222      0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
#  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm                     /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0
and the windows partition shouldn't automount
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I actually do want that one mounted. I should have explained my partition layout better. I have 3 NTFS partitions:

Code:

/dev/hda1: Windows
/dev/hda5: Storage
/dev/sda1: Media


I want the Media partition (my music, etc.) mounted, but I don't want the other 2 mounted. The other 2 have just started mounting automatically since I installed gnome-volume-manager to do automounting for my CD and DVD drives.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

...mmmm I only have a suggestion to try. Maybe it helps by hiding the ntfs partition; I think you can do this with fdisk or with gparted. (unmount the partition before you try to hide it)
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same problem here. All my partitions get mounted as I log into Gnome. I'm not asked which should, nor can I change it. Even those which don't actually have mountpoints on the disk (those are than automatically created)! I believe partition hiding isn't really a good way for getting this right. It's a bit like a dirty hack (which I can accept for one time use, but not as long term workaround).
I believe I will need to search gnome-config throughtoutly...
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm going to try adding entries for them in fstab with the noauto option to see if that does it. I'll post my results.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can try to hide the partition from a live linux distro...I think this is the last idea I have for the moment :?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Adding them to fstab with noauto fixed it.
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