[GLLUG] Mounting All Partitions!

[Taylor Burke]

Feature :P

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 8:05 PM, David Crampton <dave.crampton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Taylor Burke
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