[GLLUG] Mounting All Partitions!

[David Crampton]

Which term? "Stupid" or "feature"?
On Feb 12, 2012 4:16 PM, "Taylor Burke" <tburke1192 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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