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Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM?

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM?
Date 2015-09-26 17:30 +0200
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On Sat 26 Sep 2015 at 09:13:27 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

> I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem.
> That Jessie (and IIRC Squeeze) automatically mount the cdrom drive every
> time the drawer is closed is a nuisance requiring to manually run umount
> before I can proceed.
> 
> /etc/fstab has noauto under options.

Probably nothing to do with your problem. From fstab(5)

  noauto do not mount when "mount -a" is given (e.g., at boot time)
 
> Where else should I look.
> I would prefer to disable on a per session basis.
> Total disabling is acceptable.

Automounting is usually handled by the file manager of whatever DE you
are using.

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How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-09-26 16:20 +0200
  Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-09-26 17:30 +0200
    Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-09-26 18:30 +0200
      Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? rlharris@oplink.net - 2015-09-26 20:30 +0200
      Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-09-26 21:50 +0200
        Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-09-27 00:20 +0200
          Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-09-27 13:30 +0200
            Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-10-04 16:50 +0200
              Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 17:10 +0200
                Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-10-04 17:20 +0200
                Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 17:50 +0200
                Re: How to disable automatic mounting of CDROM? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-10-04 18:10 +0200

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