Who is automounting now?（SOLVED)

pstar · Apprentice Joined: 22 Nov 2007 Posts: 189

I just installed Gentoo and Gnome-light in my new box and everything went great except one thing: it automatically mount my Windows partitions
with some strange names such as "15.7GB Media, DATA" .

Initially as all the windows partitions are NTFS, it wouldn't mount until I installed ntfs3g, but after I put entries with the partion names I want into /etc/fstab,
I noticed strange named window partitions appears on my desktop every time I login and in my gnome menu -> places menu as well. I could disable
those partitions not show on my desktop by gconf-editor, but what I really want is make those Windows partitions mounted with correct names shown.

I tried disable gnome-volume-manager automount everything and even removed it, nothing changed. I also tried to comment out those partitions entries in /etc/fstab , and noticed a new entry will appear in /etc/mtab. So looks like something else is auto mounting those partitions, probably HAL? I know very little about it and couldn't find anything to changed. Thanks for any suggestions!

Zucca · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:47 am Post subject:

I have only experience with KDE, but I just rename (select the device icon, press F2) all the devices (usb ones too).
If this does not work try to right-click on the device icon and see if there's someting to rename the device (look also into "properties").

Also if you set noauto and owner -options in fstab (letting gnome handle those ) for those devices (partitions), you could possibly set their mount point with gnome mounter utility (gnome-volume-manager?).
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EvaSDK · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject:

it seems usb automount gets broken with recent udev and older kernels (less or equal to 2.6.23)

pstar · Apprentice Joined: 22 Nov 2007 Posts: 189

Zucca · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject:

pstar · Apprentice Joined: 22 Nov 2007 Posts: 189

Hi, thank you guys, it turns out a small problem come from my side :-)

I managed get ride of automount by mount my Windows partitions in /mnt instead of in /media in /etc/fstab,
but after that I realized that this change only affect wither gnome display it on my places shortcuts or not.
If my mount points are in /media, the only difference is gnome will make a shortcuts on my gnome menu, but
the strange names displayed in menu must come from somewhere, and it turned out come from labels in NTFS
partitions.

As labels are not necessary and can always change later, when I partitioned my new hard drive a few days ago,
I assigned labels come out my mind at that moment to some partitions but not all, That is why gnome menu
displayed some strange and inconsistent names for my NTFS partitions.

Actually gnome-volume-manage or hal tried to make my life easier by try to get hints from NTFS partitions label
and if there is none, it will come up with it own name.

Zucca · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:47 am Post subject:

pstar · Apprentice Joined: 22 Nov 2007 Posts: 189

Thanks again, and marked solved now