Which term? "Stupid" or "feature"? <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 12, 2012 4:16 PM, "Taylor Burke" <<a href="mailto:tburke1192@gmail.com">tburke1192@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> That's a really stupid feature... and I use that term loosely. On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Charles Tower <<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Well, I am back in St. Louis, so I verified that Bodhi Linux mounts > all partitions on the one hard disk I have in this PC. Not only that, > but it mounts them at /media/<device name> (e.g., /media/sda8), even > though some of the partitions are in /etc/fstab and specify other > mount points and noauto. > > I looked in the Bodhi forum last night and found someone else > complaining about this behavior, calling it a bug. Most of the > responders thought it was proper behavior and couldn't understand why > the original poster thought it risky. At least one of them had the > good grace to explain what caused the behavior and how to nullify it. > In /etc/rc.local is the line "automount". You could comment that out > or remove the executable permissions from rc.local. > -- > Chick > > > On 1/24/12, Chick Tower <<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> I'm playing with a new distro, Bodhi Linux, which is a stripped-down >> version of Ubuntu with Enlightenment as its window manager. In addition >> to installing it on a laptop, I installed it on one of my desktop PCs >> that has several other distros on it. Bodhi mounts all of my partitions >> automatically, even if they belong to other distros and they aren't in >> Bodhi's /etc/fstab. I think that's a fine way to enable users to mess >> up the installations of other distros, and I don't care for the practice. >> >> Does anyone know if this is standard behavior for Ubuntu, and, if it is, >> how to disable it? Thanks. >> -- >> >> Chick > _______________________________________________ > linux-user mailing list > <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> > <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> -- Taylor Burke Consultant, Ideal Solution LLC <a href="tel:%28517%29%20485-2650%20ext.%20222" value="+15174852650">(517) 485-2650 ext. 222</a> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>