On Saturday 10 February 2018 15:27:09 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 10 Feb 2018 at 15:08:58 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 10 February 2018 11:57:38 David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 10 Feb 2018 at 09:10:40 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > And despite my emasculation of udev, disabling sdd, according to > > > > the syslog, usbmount is still auto mounting these cards, all 3 > > > > of them. > > You wrote: ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ > > > > > So if I plan on working with these images on this machine with > > > > gparted, I imagine I had better find usbmount and remove its > > > > execute bits. But first make my baby some breakfast. > > > > > > Oh my, what did you expect? > > > > For something as potentially obnoxious as that, an easily thrown > > switch to enable/disable it. It is NOT in /etc/init.d. > > What isn't in /etc/init.d? What do you expect to be in /etc/init.d?
usbmount. I expected to find a starter script with a recognizable name. > Why? Why not? At least that would give this hacker a target to throw a hatchet at. > > > Package: usbmount > > > > > > Description-en: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage > > > devices > > > > > > This package automatically mounts USB mass storage devices > > > (typically USB pens) when they are plugged in, and unmounts them > > > when they are removed. The mountpoints (/media/usb[0-7] by > > > default), filesystem types to consider, and mount options are > > > configurable. When multiple devices are plugged in, the first > > > available mountpoint is automatically selected. If the device > > > provides a model name, a symbolic link /var/run/usbmount/MODELNAME > > > pointing to the mountpoint is automatically created. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > David. > > > > No such critter on this wheezy box. > > So how do you explain the above? This is getting silly. Silly? Not in the least. At least I don't often equate silly with frustrating. Something is starting this "usbmount" thingy, and its not me. sudo grep -R usbmount /etc/* has been peeking under the covers in etc for around 5 minutes now, no hits. So in this admittedly corner case, the thing needs an on/off switch so gparted CAN do its thing without fighting with what somebody no doubt thought was one of their better brainstorms. Its turned what should be a simple operation on working 64GiB disk, whose last data is just past 4GiB, and I want to then make another image file that only includes the used area of the disk, into a major PAIN IN THE ASS. This is how raspbian and ayufan prepare the images they release, so why the hell can't I do it too? Grep finally found it, and it does have a switch, so for now its turned off on this machine. Hopefully that will also stop the cell phone icons from showing up when I plug it in for charging. > Cheers, > David. Thanks David. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
