[GLLUG] Mounting All Partitions!

Karl Schuttler karl.schuttler at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 09:04:42 EST 2012


You can do a df -h to see what is actually mounted (before clicking on
them in the file manager).

On 1/25/12, Matt Harrison <matt.harrison82 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it actually mounting them, or are they just diplayed in the file
> manager and they auto-mount when you click on them?  I know that in
> Debian and Ubuntu with most DE's they will show you all mountable
> partitions even if they aren't in /etc/fstab and then the file manager
> mounts them when you click on them.
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:10 PM, 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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