Turning off automount

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 21:47, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I do a lot of stuff with drives from other systems, mostly from an outfit
> I volunteer with.  It's annoying to have some of the partitions
> automounted, sometimes in the middle of an ongoing operation.
>
> I have a script that successfully turned off automounting on my Xubuntu
> boxen (most of my boxen run Xubuntu), but it does not work on my one true
> Ubuntu box, a System76 server.
>
> The code I used for Xubuntu is
>
>     gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount false
>     gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount-open false
>
> Is there equivalent code that works on Ubuntu 18.04.2??
>

You will need to use dconf.  The GUI is dconf-editor no doubt your
favourite search engine will tell you the command line equivalent.

Colin
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