On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 04:18:33PM +0100, Daniel R. wrote:
> Package: gnome-volume-manager
> Version: 1.2.1-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Hello, gnome-volume-manager works correctly when plugging usb pen-drive,
> when unplugging it..., it correctly starts with my gnome session, etc.
>
> But: when starting my gnome session it ALSO mounts my hda1 hda5
> (Windows) partitions (correctly configured in fstab), in my hard disk
> (hda).
>
> I find this behaviour somewhat extrange, as my IDE hard disk is not a
> removable device. I admit it may be nice under some circumstances, but
> not my case: in fact, I just want my Windows partitions to be mounted
> manually only (e.g. don't want to run "find / -name " command on them).
>
> Not sure if this "bug" should apply to pmount, instead of g-v-m, but
> I have run g-v-m from console and it seems to be responsible for this
> undesireable mounts. For instance, I get these lines when starting
> g-v-m from console:
>
> manager.c/1151: mount_all: mounting /dev/hda1
> (...)
> manager.c/1151: mount_all: mounting /dev/hda5
> (...)
>
> Apparently, g-v-m tries to mount EVERYTHING by default ?
Correct.
> I still want my usb stick to be mounted automatically, so disabling
> automounting checkboxes in gnome-volume-properties menu is not valid
> for me.
>
> At least, it would be good to provide a "blacklist.conf" file so you
> can specify which devices you don't want to be auto-mounted. Again,
> not sure if this should apply to g-v-m or pmount.
It's g-v-m, on startupt it tries to pmount all the volumes and pmount
(correctly) allows you to mount non-removable volumes if mount would allow it.
Sjoerd
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