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USB Flash Drive Automounting

I'm trying to prevent my USB flashdrive from getting automounted upon insertion. I've already set automount to false under org.gnome.desktop.media-handling, yet the flash drive continues to get ...
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USB Drive Removed While Write Now GParted Hangs

I was writing to drive with UNetbootin. This is the error on attempted mount: Failed to open directory "0FFD-2516". Error when getting information for file '/media/0FFD-2516/╛▌ü╞ΦÇ.Sfì': ...
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Auto-mount external USB cdrom in Ubuntu Server

I have an external USB DVD drive which I can mount successfully with sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom. The trouble is the mount seems to fail when I change disks, and it gets really confused if I ...
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Automounting my fat32 external USB drive with fstab

My hard drive is a Seagate External HD and it worked perfectly out of the box. The filesystem was NTFS and it showed up on the left hand side in Nautilus with its own icon, and it was referenced as ...
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reasonable USB mount points

Plugging in my Android cellphone in Mass Storage mode mounts the SD card via USB onto an insane pathname like /media/sp;<_html>/ which of course causes problems later with other programs like ...
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Can't access external USB storage after updating to 12.10

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 after Windows failed me and Samsung got a bit pissy about providing any help. I then upgraded to 12.10 after a week or two and suddenly my external USB devices no longer ...
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Only root-permissions to USB-drive after formatting with Gparted

I formatted my external USB-drive with GParted to ext2 file system. After that the usb-drive is automounted with root-permission and now I only can write with sudo to the drive. Of course I can change ...
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Disable auto-opening nautilus window after auto-mount

Every time I plug a USB stick in, nautilus opens a new window with the contents of the drive. I would like to disable this auto-opening of the nautilus window, but I would like the actual auto-mount ...
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Accessing DVD or USB drive [closed]

When I insert a DVD or USB drive into the computer it does not open. Are there additional drivers that I need to install? I know the USB drive is working because I installed Ubuntu using it.
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Auto mount USB Drive as READ ONLY [closed]

Good day! I was looking for a way to quickly mount a USB Drive as READ ONLY. I see lots of issues of people having it mount read only when they do want to but in my case I need to ensure the USB ...
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Auto-mounting an encrypted USB hard drive

How can you configure a headless Ubuntu server to auto-mount an encrypted USB hard drive? I found this similar question, which explains how to mount the drive from the command line, but the author is ...
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Having problems with mounting USB flash drives [closed]

Sorry for such a long post :) I'm not such an expert as I wanna be, but I'm still learning on my mistakes. Just recently I've encountered an problem with mounting USB flash memory sticks and external ...
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Media autoplays when USB drive is opened from the Unity menu

An annoying change I've experienced upon upgrading to 11.10 is that when a USB device is opened from the unity menu, any media (i.e. music and videos) contained on it are autoplayed with whatever ...
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How do I automount usb drives to /media/volume_label on a server? [closed]

As mentioned in the title, I'd like to automount usb drives to /media/volume_label in Ubuntu Server 11.10. I'd like to make this happen like it does with Ubuntu Desktop, but in an Ubuntu Server ...
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transcend usb not auto mounting

I have a 16 gb transcend pen drive. One day I had partitioned into 4, and on one part I had installed ubuntu 11.04. But after that it seems the usb won't auto mount. I have used the fdisk utility and ...
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Which usb_modeswitch.d file do I need to use?

How do I configure usb_modeswitch on Ubuntu 10.04? When the device is pluged in lsusb gives: oshirowanen@laptop:~$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 19d2:0103 ONDA Communication S.p.A. When I eject ...
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Getting Ubuntu Minimal + LXDE to automount USB drives

I am trying to get Ubuntu Minimal +_ LXDE to auto mount my USB drives. Currently I need to do pmount /dev/sdb1 manually. Also I have LXDE > Preferences > Automount all checked
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Nautilus automount - controlling GID/UID/mode bits

How do I set GID/UID and mode bits assigned to the directory in /media, to which my USB drive is auto-mounted when I plug it in (i.e. to the directory, which represents the drive itself, e.g. ...
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Is setting default mount options for udisks really not possible?

I want to mount usb drives with option flush (or sync). I'm using Kubuntu 10.10 and as far as I understood udisks is responsible for the mount options. I've read various threads and two solutions ...
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Disable auto-mount for particular partitions on USB drives

I have a big USB disk with 3 partitions: one for backup and two other bootable ones for installing and testing new distros. I want the backup partition automounted on boot. But I don't want the two ...
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How to auto mount my external hard drive?

On login, ubuntu 10.10 would not mount external hard drives automatically, While ubuntu 10.04 mount them on login. I've tried Storage Device Manager but it give error when external hard is not ...
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How to turn off automount in Ubuntu Server 10.04

I have an external USB HDD IDE enclosure that I use to back up and then wipe old hard drives. My questions is: How do I prevent Ubuntu Server from auto mounting these drives? Most of the ...
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What is the difference between “Unmount”, “Eject”, “Safely Remove Drive” and the eject icon?

When I right-click the desktop icon for my USB drive or SD card I have the choice to "Eject" or "Safely Remove Drive": In the Tree side pane in Nautilus, I can either "Unmount" or "Eject": The ...