[GLLUG] Mounting All Partitions!

[Taylor Burke]

That's a really stupid feature... and I use that term loosely.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Charles Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> 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 <c.e.tower at gmail.com> 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
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