Stop a drive from automounting

[Edgars Šmits]

On 10/8/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Edgars ?mits wrote:
>
> > On 10/7/07, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/4/07, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Im trying to recover my hd and I need to resize another drive. Im
> >> > using LIVE CD to do this. But the second drive, my backup drive, keeps
> >> > remounting itself after I unmount it. I cant get GParted to resize it
> >> > before it mounts again.
> >> >
> >> > How do I stop this?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Comment its entry in /etc/fstab and reboot
> >>
> > It's probably easier for a newbie (such as myself) to simply turn off
> > automount in Preferences - Removable Drives & Media until they have
> > finished their resizing.
>
> Probably, since automounted drives aren't usually _in_ fstab :-)
> --
> derek

Good catch Derek, should have thought of that myself<G>


Cheers

ED