Re: How to disable USB automounts (still failing...)
On Sat 10 Sep 2011 at 18:16:58 +0300, Itay wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Brian wrote:
>
>> Before doing this you will have read udisks(7) and know why it may not
>> work. You may also want to investigate changing the udev rule to see the
>> effect of UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE.
>
> Indeed it did not work. This is including testing after a reboot.
> I read udisks(7), and tried understanding again udev's man page but this
> lies beyond my reach.
There are two mistakes in the advice offered. One is major: the rule
in /etc/udev/rules.d/ has to be used after 80-udisks.rules in
/lib/udev/rules.d, so would be better put in 85-no-automount.rules. A
relatively minor mistake (which was reported in your syslog) is that
'subsystem' should be 'SUBSYSTEM'.
It should be sufficient to leave out 'ACTION' and 'SUBSYSTEM' and have
the rule as:
ENV{UDISKS_AUTOMOUNT_HINT}="never"
or
ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY}="1"
The latter is used in 80-udisks.rules.
With Thunar/Thunar-volman neither rule prevents automounting but, as
they are only hints, a file manager may ignore them. Purging the
volume management software or setting Thunar to not use it is how I
would tackle the issue.
UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE is acted on though, but you probably don't
want to use it.
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