[SOLVED] How do I STOP automounting of USB drives

[Milliways]

I have an external USB drive with 3 partitions.

How do I stop Ubuntu mounting the HFS+ partition?

[shawnrgr]

system>preferences>removable media, just turn off the mount when inserted or hotpluged

[dcstar]

I have an external USB drive with 3 partitions.

How do I stop Ubuntu mounting the HFS+ partition?

Doubtful you can choose which partition not to automount, it's all or nothing.

[kpkeerthi]

Add an entry to /etc/fstab and set 'noauto' option, like so:

/dev/<device>   <mount-point>  <partition-type>   <other-options>,noauto  0 0

You should Reboot for the changes to take effect.

See this link for help with FSTAB and HFS specific details

[Milliways]

system>preferences>removable media, just turn off the mount when inserted or hotpluged

system>preferences>Removable Drives and Media
has entries for Cameras, PDA, Printers & Input Devices
but not drives

[Milliways]

Add an entry to /etc/fstab and set 'noauto' option, like so:

/dev/<device>   <mount-point>  <partition-type>   <other-options>,noauto  0 0

/dev/sdb1 /media/Mac hfsplus noauto,ro 0 0

seems to do the trick.
I wanted to use UUID, but the partition does not seem to have this.

LABEL=XXXX works better than /dev/sdb1, which stopped USB keys from being mounted

I had read the fstab document, but did not realise this could be used

[dcstar]

system>preferences>Removable Drives and Media
has entries for Cameras, PDA, Printers & Input Devices
but not drives

Same on my 8.04 system, I had to use the Configuration Editor and go into:

Apps-Nautilus-Preferences-media_automount to actually make mine automount after some naughty software disabled the feature.