How to stop Hal mounting HDD partitions

[kjpetrie]

Sometimes Hal mounts partitions on your hard drive relating to test installs or other OSes which you don't want available in pclos. This can be stopped by giving each partition a mount point and setting its noauto flag, but that's fiddly if you have to do it for every partition created elsewhere.

An alternative is to tell HAL to leave sata and ide devices alone unless they have removable media (eg optical drives).

Put the following in a file (as root) and store it at /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe/20-nomount-hdd:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- store at /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe/20-nomount-hdd -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
    <device>
        <match key="storage.bus" string_outof="sata;ide">
        <match key="storage.removable" bool="false">
            <merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
        </match>
    </device>
</deviceinfo>

HAL will now ignore SATA and IDE devices which don't have removable media.

[Just18]

Sometimes Hal mounts partitions on your hard drive relating to test installs or other OSes which you don't want available in pclos.

Do you mean auto mount or mount when - for instance - selected in a file manager?

I have never had them automount here (KDE), which is why I ask.

[djohnston]

HAL will now ignore SATA and IDE devices which don't have removable media.

That's a good tip. Maybe this can be incorporated in our live CDs.

[Just18]

HAL will now ignore SATA and IDE devices which don't have removable media.

That's a good tip. Maybe this can be incorporated in our live CDs.

  I hope not 

[kjpetrie]

Automount. They will still be mounted if specifically requested in the FM sidebar.

[Just18]

Automount. They will still be mounted if specifically requested in the FM sidebar.

Thanks.

I never saw that happening here with KDE4.

I have a couple automount and the rest not. The only entries in fstab are for / & /home and a NFS mount point. The non-fstab partitions are taken care of with Device Notifier settings.