>>> On one of my (Debian stable) machines, all the partitions that aren't
>>> mentioned in /etc/fstab end up mounted in /media/root/<UUID>, and that's
>>> apparently a "feature" of `udisks2`.
>>>
>>> How can I tell udisks2 to refrain from doing that?
>
> If you do not like automounting on connecting a drive then change settings
> of your desktop environment.
FWIW, this is a headless SBC I use as home server. I do connect it to
an HDMI screen occasionally when I need to debug boot issues, but
I don't have any Xorg or Wayland installed on it.
I do occasionally log into it as root over the serial connection.
Maybe that's what triggers the auto-mount?
> If you do not like that mounted partitions can not be accessed by
> users other than root then add udev hints for specific partitions, see
> udisks(8) and
No, it's rather than I don't like those filesystems being mounted at all
(it gets in the way of messing with the filesystem behind the kernel's
back, for example).
>> I'm not sure if it's the best/easiest way, but in the past I've used
>> udev rules with ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1":
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Udisks#Hide_selected_partitions
> It is used by desktop environment automounters and file managers rather than
> udisks itself.
The only file manager I use as root is `zsh`. 🙂
>> You could instead put the thing in fstab with a "noauto" as one of its
>> mount options. Then it wouldn't be mounted by the system at boot, nor by
>> udisks.
That's an idea. I'd have preferred a way to avoid having to list each
and every such partition, but it's better than nothing, thanks.
> It is a viable approach as well since arbitrary mount point may be specified
> instead of /media/LABEL and /media/UUID hardcoded in udisks2. Users are
> still able to do "udisksctl mount -b ...".
Oh, right. Hmm....
Stefan
