No clean way to disable automount in Hardy
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Bug Description
Original Question: "In the good, old gutsy-days I was able to disable automount for external devices from "system" > "preferences" > "removable drives and media". There was a "storage"-tab where I could unmark the automount-feature. The storage-tab is gone in Hardy (along with the multimedia-tab, which is now found in Nautilus), so now I'm stuck with a system, that keeps mounting USB/Firewire-
My comment (it was and is not "Solved"):
If I disable automount either via Nautilus or doing the /etc/hal stuff, when I try to use the panel mounter, I get a box saying "Mount Error", no other text, a DoNotEnter icon, and an OK button and it doesn't mount. Having an autorization popup every time I insert the drive is also annoying - No, I don't want to automount and I don't want to use an authorization hack to interrupt the proces. Gutsy just worked. Now I have to do the equivalent of registry hacks and they DON'T WORK.
In Hardy, the choices are either automounting the half-dozen partitions on my USB mirror drive with the complaints or damaged filesystems (useless fsck a large ext2 partition each time) if I don't manually unmount each one, or not being able to mount at all except by doing sudo mkdir /media/whatever then sudo mount commands in a console.
I want to have it so when I insert a drive it appears in the panel but does not mount, but when I tell the panel to mount it, it will mount it instead of giving me blank error boxes. In short, the way Gutsy handled it. This does not appear to be possible in Hardy.
There is no way to with one click mount a FAT USB drive named XYZ on /media/XYZ. It will do it automatically, but then also do it automatically for every partition on my large drive and there is no single "auto-u-mount" where I can umount every partition on a particular drive. If there were, the behavior would be more tolerable.
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Update: it is working now like Gutsy. I had to kill gvfsd, delete ~/.gvfs, and reboot, and set the nautilus pref. I may have done some other things, and it might break again.
