Disabling auto-mount for a sick usb drive

[Village Idiot]

Hi.

I found this as a method to prevent auto-mounting, but I believe it is for kde.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,73248.0.html


I am using lxde (latest, full) and I have someone's drive that contains an injured ext3 or ext4 FS. I want to plug it in without it mounting so I can get to fixing it. Tired of booting a live cd just to accomplish this.

 

[Neal ManBear]

PCManFM is set to not automount by default in 2011.06. For earlier versions, PCManFM > Edit > Preferences > Volume Management tab > untick "Mount mountable volumes automatically on program startup."

[Village Idiot]

Hi Neal.

Thanks. That seems to have done it. I think though the option below that one "mount removable media when inserted" is the one I want. Anyhow I unchecked all three options for good measure.

Thanks again, maestro!

 

[djohnston]

Even if it does automount when plugged in, you can unmount it via one click in PCManFM.

[Neal ManBear]

Yep. Or right click the drive's entry in the left side menu and choose Unmout from the drop menu. Easy.

edited for clarity

[djohnston]

I just click the upwards pointing icon shown in the lower right corner.

[Village Idiot]

Even if it does automount when plugged in, you can unmount it via one click in PCManFM.

Yes of course. And normally I don't mind the automount feature esp if I bother to change the partition's label because that is what is mounted on /media/label rather than the super cryptic /media/disk-x 

I wanted this disabled so that the file system was not messed around with in any way before I got a chance to fsck it.

 

Thanks guys!