USB automounting [SOLVED]

[Launfal]

OK, so I'm seriously driving Spring AMD64, and I'm learning my way around. Got my partitions mounted and fstabbed, got my usb mount points in /media, manually mounted swap, so far so good.

I did a quick forum search and couldn't find the answer to this anywhere.

My USB drives are mounting automatically. I have them in fstab as noauto and an alias to mount and unmount them, but for some reason they're mounting by themselves. The mounts look like they're obeying the fstab rules, but I'd really like to manually control what mounts where.

This has got to be something simple that I don't see, but how do I turn this off?

[machinebacon]

I guess this is done by udisks. So, let's see:
http://zurlinux.com/?p=35
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... gnomeudisk

Edit the udisks.rules file (sudo cat /lib/udev/rules.d/usbmount.rules for example, or sudo cat /lib/udev/rules.d/80-udisks*.rules), I guess that's the answer.

[ivanovnegro]

Nice. Everybody is complaining that on the BBQ there is no automounting and you want the opposite. :D

[machinebacon]

Yeah, it's quite a mess since there are udev, udisks, udisks2, pmount, fstab, gvfs, oh what the fuck :D Each DE uses a different management, so maybe we should really pedal back on future releases and get rid of anything but udev.

[Launfal]

@Ivan LOL Always being different, that's me.

I'm not against automounting as a rule. If I'm running a DE, I would expect it, since a DE is supposed to make stuff simpler. But at the CLI, I would expect automounting to be something that I'd have to set up manually. To have it just be there without asking me was just irritating, especially since I had just upgraded from Wheezy where it is not the default. I'm going to dig into Bacon's links up there and see what I can do about it.

If I want handheld, I'd install a DE. I don't, so I won't. This smells like some Gnome-like "feature" creep oozing into unrelated parts of the OS, and that's what I'm against.

And, now the drives are mounting as root. Even chowning them to my user account, I can't umount them except as root. That's not the way I'm used to, and that's another reason I want to fix it.

[Launfal]

You are not going to believe this. I have been screwing around with udev rules all freaking morning, and nothing worked. Something was overriding the udev rules and ignoring them. I was about ready to just say screw it and add sudo to my aliases for unmounting the usb's when I tried one last thing.

I checked the /etc directory, found /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf. Right there was an option for automounting. Setting that to 0 and the problem is fixed.

Holy-craporoni. It's the simple stuff that wastes all the time Now everything works the way it did in Wheezy. We can count this solved.

Oh, and by the way, udisks is now udisks2, and there's no manpage for it, and some of the options have changed. A huge waste of time, but there's a lesson here. Check what you've already got before you go looking for something else.

[machinebacon]

＾ Or in short: purge usbmount :)

[Launfal]

^ I considered that once I found it, but I figured it was there for a reason and I didn't want to bork something by purging it. It's not something I would install, so I never thought to look for it until waaaaay too late.

It's gone now, and nothing blew up. Life is good again.

[machinebacon]

Yeah it was actually my bad that I didn't mention the /etc/config file but the one in /lib/ -- didn't do my homework :D