[solved] Stop gnome automounting partitions

[mallchin]

After an update some weeks ago Gnome mounts all of my partitions. It even shows /boot twice (how annoying).

How can I stop gnome automounting everything? I am guessing it is something to do with hal.

[Majlo]

After an update some weeks ago Gnome mounts all of my partitions. It even shows /boot twice (how annoying).

How can I stop gnome automounting everything? I am guessing it is something to do with hal.

Hi

If you want to stop automounting in gnome just delete gnome-volume-manager --sm-disable in System - Preferences - Sessions ( Startup Programs )

[mallchin]

Thanks for the reply. I still want to mount removable volumes (such as USB sticks) just not static ones (like my Windows partition).

I traced the problem back to HAL and fixed it by creating a new file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/90-user-methods.fdi and adding the following:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
 <device>
   <match key="volume.fsusage" string="filesystem">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
       <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="true">
               <merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge>
                <merge key="storage.policy.should_mount" type="bool">true</merge>
       </match>
   </match>
 </device>
</deviceinfo>