On Monday 11 November 2002 21:18, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 02.11.11 at 15:59, John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, Carlos E. R. wrote:
When I start gnome, it always mounts all windows partitions. I unmount them, and the next time I start gnome there they are again: disgusting. I think Nautilus is responsible for that, but I don't see any thing in the configuration for disabling that automatism.
In /etc/fstab, change the entries for your windows partitions to have "noauto" instead of "auto".
That should sort it :-)
Huh?
MMmm..., yes, you are right, that works.
I was uncanny. When I first logged it, there they were, half a dozen icons. I removed them, exited saving the session, and logged in again: good, they dissapeared. When I rebooted and logged in again, there they were, back there in the desktop.
I hate automatisms that can not be disabled. Well... at least your trick disables that behaviour, unless I want some partition mounted by the system automatically.
In this case it's not so much a trick or work-around - editing /etc/fstab is the proper Linux mechanism for recording the desired mount state (among other things) of the system at boot time. The desktop behaved correctly by reflecting fstab. If you don't want these partitions mounted automatically, then you did the right thing following John's advice. If you do decide you want a particular partition mounted at boot time, change your 'noauto' back to 'auto'. Best Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk