Avoid automounting NTFS drives

[fuchs005]

Hi community,

I found some threads about automounting NTFS drives, but my problem goes the other way round. I want to avoid automounting of my NTFS drives.

I have two physical HDD's in my System, the first with Fedora 8 and the second with windows. After the fresh installation, the NTFS drives where not mounted automatically. Once I mounted them (under GNOME desktop), they are automounted to /media/<drives> and linked to the desktop each time I start my system.

There are no entrys for the NTFS drives in the /etc/fstab , so I don't know where the drives are mounted. I think it has something to do with the desktop environment.

Can somebody help me?

Regards
fuchs005

[JohnVV]

i noticed that when i i first installed 8 but seeing as i have remounted it( C:\\) with fstab i ignore it .The desktop icons were annoying at first but now i ignore them ( C:\\ and dev/sdb1 share drive ) on Gnome desktop
as to how to get rid of them for a temp solution just r click it and select unmount , you would need to do this every time you start the sys.
or
you can turn off autofs and fuse in services but then you will need to mount the cd dvd 3.5 flopy and usb by hand
or
run

 yum remove ntfs-3g

but then you will not be able to mount ntfs even by hand

[reader]

Did you two find the solution for this problem yet? If yes, please let me know.

What I have done is to create entries in fstab to mount them readonly. This way, at least you can not mess with it.

[glennzo]

I believe this thread, http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...t=device+icons, may hold the answer to your question.Or it may just mask the issue. Have a look see and see what you think.

[sidebrnz]

Instead of mounting them read only, just specify noauto in fstab. Then, they'll only mount when you need to use them.