External Disk Intrusion

[Tony Arnold]

Phil,

On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 12:40 +0000, Phil Dobbin wrote:


On 08/01/2020 12:16, Tony Arnold wrote:


Hi Phil,


On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 11:39 +0000, Colin Law wrote:

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 09:59, Phil Dobbin <

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I can think of a number of ways you might fix this:


1) Check on the device itself to see if it goes to sleep after a certain

amount of time and disable this (I'm guessing on this one to be honest)


2) Go into settings and removable devices and set removable devices to

do nothing rather than mount automatically.


3) If the device is permanently connected, then consider mounting it in

/etc/fstab rather than let it automount.


Hi Liam, Colin & Tony.


parted reported it was a SCSI device: it's a USB HDD.


I haven't got the option of Removable Devices in Settings & can't think

where it would be.

I think it's automounting of USB devices that you need to disable. Take a look at:

<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB

My other option of mounting the device explicitly in fstab would probably also be needed.

Regards,
Tony.

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