Ubuntu :: Cannot Disable The USB Automount
Jan 25, 2011
My goal is to prevent gnome from mounting and opening up a file browser when any device is plugged in (USB, CD/DVD) for a Desktop User account. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook RemixI modified several settings in Nautilus (Edit --> Preferences --> Media (tab). I Selected "Never prompt or start programs on media insertion" and unchecked "Browse media when inserted".I restarted the system, but when I plug in a USB mass storage device the file browser window still appears and the device is mounted.I dug down into gconf and found the following registry keys that I believe are of interest:
/apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount (unchecked)
/apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount_open (unchecked)
/apps/nautilus/preferences/media_autorun_never (checked)
Has anybody run into this problem and found a solution? Modifying the keys I mentioned above worked for everyone else that has asked the "disable automounting" question (that I've found). Some very old posts mentioned gnome-volume-manager, but it is not installed on my system.
EDIT:This seems to only happen when the Netbook Launcher is started. If Netbook Launcher is removed from the list of startup programs and the system is restarted, I can insert devices without getting a pop-up window and without the device being mounted.
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Feb 18, 2010
Ubuntu v9.10 I have a damaged HDD which I want to clone using ddrescue. I want to attach it via USB connection, otherwise Linux hangs on startup. I don't want the O/S to attempt to mount the drive.I would be happy to disable mounting of all external USB drives.How can I achieve this?
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May 12, 2010
I've recently installed ubuntu 10.04 on a machine with MS Vista. Initially, I decided to use a fat32 partition (mounted at /windows) for storage of files used by both Ubuntu and Vista. Then, I saw that Ubuntu can read/write on NTFS partitions, so I deleted my fat32 disk space.
Now, Ubuntu tries to mount that partition and during the boot of the Gnome environment, it says that /windows cannot be mounted. If I press S (skip), the desktop can be loaded normally but I would like to delete all references to that partition.
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Aug 15, 2010
Im a linux. i've messed with the drives in the terminal and the drive keeps trying to automount to in the Windows 7 NTFS partition on Startup of Ubuntu 10.04, how do i disable this?
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I have Ubuntu 10.04. Each time I plug in a CD or a USB device it automounts and an icon appears on the Desktop.How do I completely disable the automount thing?
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May 4, 2011
I have ubuntu 10.04 and am running gnome desktop.Howto disable automount for USB stick devices?
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how to disable automount feature in Fedora 12?
in Fedora 11 I could easily do that through System > Administration > Authorisations but in Fedora 12 Authorisations were removed...
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Mar 8, 2011
I have squeeze with xfce4 installed. How to disable automount of usb devices under xfce?
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Aug 30, 2010
I have encrypted a partition while installing Fedora 13, and I need to disable its automount - I will mount those manually.
But even though I commented out the corresponding line in /etc/fstab, I am still asked for the passphrase for the partition at startup.
How to completely disable this behaviour - and how to mount the partition manually afterwards?
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Jan 24, 2011
I have Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome. Whenever I put in a blank CD/DVD an icon on the desktop appears named "Blank CD/DVD" and a window appears asking me what I want to do with it. How do I disable the window and the icon from the desktop?
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Jan 22, 2010
I know how to automount ntfs, what I don't know is how to automount a 2nd ext4 partition. I know I can use code...
What am I doing wrong? Also how can I read and write to and form the root of the partition with out opening it as root?
This is not the partition I have ubuntu installed on, this is a 2nd partition.
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May 24, 2010
I have a problem that I can not decide for 2 weeks. Here is what happened: On my laptop, installed just Windows XP. In the past, when I installed the second system, Ubuntu 9.04 or 9.10 (for dual-boot), Ubuntu asked the administrator password for access to just Windows XP partition. I mean, that just Windows XP partitions were visible, but for the entrance (mount) needed a root password.
Now, in Ubuntu 10.04, Windows XP partition mount automatically and Ubuntu does not require the root password. I do not like it very much.
Tell me please, what do the settings at the time of installation of Ubuntu for just Windows XP that the system would be asking root password for just Windows XP partitions? Is this possible? I think - yes. Because in the past the default 9.04 and 9.10 asked for a password.
PS: I must say, as I put Ubuntu and just Windows: 1. Be installed just Windows XP, giving it 20 GB space 100 GB hard drive. </span>The remaining 80 Gigabytes leave out the implications.
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Jun 6, 2010
Suffice it to say, I'm an idjit and can't figure out how to get my USB drives to automount.
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Nov 13, 2010
today when I inserted my usbpen in the laptop, automount did not work. I tried another pen with same result. I checked with mountmanager and both pens were working and actually mounted them manually, but automount which worked perfectly yesterday now is dead.I found a workaround installing usbmount from standard repository and now automount works again but usbpens are mounted in /MEDIA/usbx instead with their names as before and I have to open a root terminal tu unmount.
Unfortunately I use a pen for backup with unison and changing the mount position I have to modify unison profile every time, which is pretty uncomfortable.The problem May arise from the fact thgat yesterday I tried to manually compile and install the canon driver for my printer and trying to solve dependencies I had to compile and install Glib-2.26 pango-1.28.3 and gtk+2.22 from their sources.I did not manage to get a working canon driver but i may have made a mess with usb automount function.program/service is responsible for usb automount in ubuntu 10.10 so that i can reinstall or reconfigure it.
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May 2, 2010
I cannot force Ubuntu to open my data DVDs upon their insertion. It is present, but it won't automount. Of course, in /etc/fstab are no indications for removabledevices, but this is correct, I think.
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I bought myself an inexpensive USB mp3 player the other day, thinking that I could sync it just like I do my digital camera and thumb drives. No such luck.
The player is identified by 'lsusb -vv' as follows:
Quote:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 10d6:1101 Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
[Code].....
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I installed Storage Device Manager and can't automount my Windows 7 partition. It doesn't show up in Storage Device Manager. When I mount the partition, it comes up as /media/286CC2A6397A0F2A instead of sda# like normal drives.
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I have a hard drive that doesn't auto mount when the computer boots up.You have to do it manually.How do I get it to start up along with the external usb hard drives?
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Mar 30, 2010
I run ubuntu 9.10, and my wife runs winxp. I am trying to setup an automount of her storage (D) drive in my fstab. here is the line in fstab:
The share mounts with no errors, but when i go into palces and view the share, it is blank, totally empty. I can create and delete documents here, but the next time I open the share, i cant see anything. If i connect to the share using places>connect to server, everything is fine. If i connect using places, network, and browse to her machine, it works just fine.
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May 3, 2010
This computer is a little netbook that I haul around with me. it's running ubuntu 9.10. In the office, I have a NAS networked on a Windows network. I can access the filesystem in Nautilus using Samba. I'm connecting to the network wirelessly, at wlan0.The folder I want to access shows in Nautilus as
smb://diskstation/storage%20central/
And in Terminal it shows as:
Code:
jackelliott@TheJackUbuntuNetbook:~$ ls .gvfs
storage central on diskstation
How can I set ubuntu up so that when it has connected to the office network it also automounts that Windows share?
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May 14, 2010
I just upgraded to Mythbuntu 10.04 (no fresh installation) and I don't know why but my external eSata drive is no more automatically mounted.The XFCE4 config is set to automount hotpluggable and external drives but nothing happens.The eSata drive is neither automounted when switched on before booting nor when switched on while the system is running.I'm not sure, but it's possible that it worked once or twice after the upgrade. Now, it's dead - I have to mount it all manually.With 9.10 it worked like charm.It's our HTPC and my wife is already making jokes again about her nerd-husband always needing to upgrade a perfectly running system.
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After some weeks of use and occasional unplugging-when-busy, my 500GB external USB hard drive no longer will automatically mount when I plug it in. The blue light lights up when I plug it in, but there is no automounting behavior. Also, when I type
Code:
tom@zeppelin:~$ sudo mount -a
nothing happens. The result of fdisk:
Code:
tom@zeppelin:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xed1f86f7 .....
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In 9.10 I could access my auto-mounted network location with something like /home/user/.gvfs/sharename. This was particularly useful for F-Spot because that's the only way I could get it to import photos from my server.However, in 10.04 I no longer have a .gvfs folder and can't find a way to import photos from my server in F-Spot.
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I am running Ubuntu 10.04 and I am trying to automatically mount a windows share by following the advice in this Ubuntu wiki page [url]
However, when I edit the /etc/fstab file as advised and then "sudo mount -a" I get the following message in the terminal window:
Quote:
The share in question is on a FreeNAS server and the CIFS share is "//192.168.1.1/Music"
I have added the following line to /etc/fstab
Quote:
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Aug 13, 2010
how to fix this (10.04 Ubuntu x64):
A couple of weeks ago, my CD/DVD drive stopped working. I'd put in a disk, the light would flash, but it wouldn't appear as a mounted drive. Thinking the drive had finally died, I bought a new one. Same problem.
The drive is recognized by BIOS. I have it as try to mount first in BIOS, and if I put in the Ubuntu boot CD, it boots.
If I put
Code:
/dev/sr0/media/cd-dvdudf,iso9660defaults00
into /etc/fstab, and then mount -a, the drive contents appear and are accessible. However, as expected, the system chokes on boot if there isn't a CD in the drive, and I have to mount -a manually every time I start the system. Ugly.
So this is pretty clearly a software OS problem. how I can get the automount for my CD/DVD drive back?
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Aug 29, 2010
Situation is that NEITHER Linux Mint 9 NOR Ubuntu Maverick will automount my usb or cdrom? I circumvented by manual mounts thru fstab of my usb stick and usb hard drive. Now I go to burn an iso and find that my cdrom is not detected.
mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 does not do the trick, I cannot burn.
What in the world could I have done to my system ? I think blkid is ok. Win7 burns the iso to cd just fine. All OS on same CPU (grub2). I have done some searches but with minimal success.
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Oct 1, 2010
I'm trying to get some of my NAS storage to mount on my xubuntu 10.04 box at boot time. I have it in fstab, and when I run
$sudo mount -a
it mounts just fine. However, I have to run that manually, I can't get it to just mount at boot time. Here's the entry from my fstab: [URL] So like I said, manually running mount -a works fine, I just can't get it to do it automatically at boot time. I feel like the auto option should take care of that, and that's what I've read around here, but it's just not working.
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Oct 17, 2010
I have kubuntu 10.10 when i insert a pen drive, i cannot navigate in the dirs from a shell, but i have to open dolphin before and then i have to click on the /media/$newdir and then i can navigate... is there a way to automount without opening dolphin?
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