On Thu, 2025-07-24 at 10:20 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > "auto-mounted" versus manually mounted. This is not really an issue, > just trying to understand.
Do a bit of searching for: fedora automounting udev rules and ignore the AI results, there's every chance that they're completely wrong, yet presented as if it were an expert answer. Here's one example, not that I offer any endorsement of its advice (right at the top of the page): https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1h1th7v/fedora_41_automount_of_external_usb_drive_is/ There's probably a better way of doing it than modifying *that* /usr/lib... file (which will probably get reverted as some future dnf update. Lower down that page it does explain some reasoning behind it (allegedly increased security), but that seems rather lame (it's only Linux file systems on a hard drive that aren't auto-mounted, other ones can be, *and* they *can* have risky contents). And, as people have found out, a linux-formated USB flash drive can be automounted, and can be more of a security risk than a hard drive (let's face it, it's a far less noticeable thing of someone plugging a tiny thing into a port than a hard drive on a cable). On a system in your own home, most of those security concerns are moot. The biggest risk to a home computer is the owner, themselves. So, if your need is that your home PC can boot up and automatically mount your USB storage device without your hand-holding the process, have at it and configure your system in the way that you want. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
