On Sat 10 Feb 2018 at 22:06:05 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 10 February 2018 18:04:30 Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 10 Feb 2018 at 16:09:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Your expectations on where usbmount puts its files are completely and > > utterly unfounded. > > > > > > Why? > > > > > > Why not? At least that would give this hacker a target to throw a > > > hatchet at. > > > > David Wright meant - why did you expect usbmount (which you have > > determined is not on your machine) to put a file in /etc/init.d? > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > This is the "usbmount" thingy critter which is absent from your box? > > > > > sudo grep -R usbmount /etc/* > > > has been peeking under the covers in etc for around 5 minutes now, > > > no hits. > > > > Not surprising if it doesn't exist. > > I didn't think it did, until htop caught it running yesterday. > > > > 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. > > > > Where did it find it? > > /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf. And it has exactly the switch I was looking > for. So ATM its turned off. But damn! I just now plugged in the cell > phone and the icon popped up in about a second. But I guess thats > because I didn't block it for sdf.
Odd, that, because the README for usbmount says: USBmount is intended as a lightweight solution which is independent of a desktop environment. Users which would like an icon to appear when an USB device is plugged in should use other alternatives. Cheers, David.
