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I added entries to block the partitions on an external drive (via USB) from auto-mounting at boot time. I tried using the UUIDs, and the block names (/dev/sdc1). (I need to be using the UUIDs.)

UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /media/me/OS ntfs ro,noauto,nofail 0 0

and separately:

/dev/sdc4 /media/me/OS ntfs ro,noauto,nofail 0 0

If I manually umount the partitions, I can mount them with sudo mount /dev/sdc3 /media/me/OS

sudo mount -a does not remount the partitions.

The drive is a 500GB Seagate Blue. Three partitions are being auto-mounted. The file explorer dialog for each is opening. The dialogs are calling them "volumes." This disk is a copy of a failed disk I recovered with ddrescue.

This question is based on an earlier question I asked, How to Block Automounting of a Specific Drive (USB connection) With ** Three Mounted Partitions **

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Auto-mounting was enabled in the File Manager (non-standard Thunar mod), and this was overriding /etc/fstab. The setting in the File Manager (Volume Management) is all-or-nothing, mount external drives automatically, or don't. So I disabled that, and am controlling things with udev and fstab.

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  • Can you expand a little on this? Curious minds want to know :-) I don't see any setting like that in Nautilus File Manager. Are you using something else? What did you do with udev and fstab? – heynnema Dec 31 '19 at 17:27
  • I followed instructions on a post here to change to Thunar some time ago. – JasonF4 Dec 31 '19 at 18:20
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    Ah, that's why I didn't know about that option. That's not a standard out of the box configuration. I know what you did with fstab. What did you do with udev? – heynnema Dec 31 '19 at 18:31
  • I added a standard udev rule to auto-mount USB drives... – JasonF4 Dec 31 '19 at 19:30
  • I thought that you didn't want auto-mount? Wasn't that the whole point? – heynnema Dec 31 '19 at 19:35

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