[SOLVED] Prevent HAL to automount windows partition

shaman200 · n00b Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 30

Well , since the update of HAL to 0.5.9-r1 ,all partition on my disks are automounted... and i don't want that

Merely because i'm not interested in my windows system or games partition in linux.

So i googled a little and found this wiki :http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL

So to solve my problem here's the solution that work for me:

Just create the file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/90-user-methods.fdi with the following code:

trolley · Apprentice Joined: 12 Jun 2002 Posts: 292 Location: Canada

I did it this way:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-565859-highlight-.html

Fred Krogh · Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:

Putting noauto in fstab was not doing the job for me. Ths suggestion by shaman200 did the job -- many thanks! (I'm frequently amazed at the solutions people come up with!) Perhaps shaman200 could edit his post to change

kimmie · Guru Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 531 Location: Australia

Onip · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject:

rule posted by shaman200 halted my sd card reader to be automounted on sd insertion. So i wrote a much more specific rule for my hd partitions, not the best (I know) but it works. Here it is

Onip · Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:05 am Post subject:

after more googling and experimenting I found this one, which should get every internal disk partition ( i.e. ones which usually are listed in fstab) and ignore them.