Something keeps hogging my removable drives

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Wed Dec 22 05:53:08 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:43 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Help a newbie (to Ubuntu and debian -- but quite familiar
> with Unix and Linux)?
> 
> Something keeps mounting my removable (Jaz/zip) drives,
> and I don't necessarily want that to happen.  The worst part
> is, I have yet to be able to eject one of them.  I find I don't
> recognize about half the contents of /etc/init.d, which is
> where I would look on the other systems I've used.  Moreover,
> the system controls for these things also give no help.
> I have the feeling I could be looking right at it and not
> recognize it.  It's also possible it's in some place I haven't
> learned to search yet.
> 
> What service is it, and how do I turn it off?
> 
> ++ kevin






Look in /etc/fstab

What does that say???


HTH

Vram..








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