Stop auto-mounting in Redhat!!!

[RudeCat7]

Alright, I wasn't paying attention before, how do I keep Redhat 8.0 from automounting an audio CD?

It's really annoying when I just want to make a back up.

[Ice-9]

Edit /etc/fstab.
there should be in line in there that looks something like this

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Remove "auto".

[Calum]

are you sure? i thought the 'auto' referred to the filesystem type eg: vfat, ext3 and so on?

however you do indeed want to edit your /etc/fstab and i would recommend using 'man mount' and this page here. to find out how to do it.

Sorry, i didn't mean to poop in your kettle, ice9, there is a huge chance that you are right and i just don't know what i am talking about, but that's what i thought.

[Ice-9]

No problem at all Calum, actually you make me hesitate now, I should've taken a look at my fstab file before posting this.
I'm at work right now so I can't check on it.

I was kinda sure that was what I did when I disabled automounting for my DVD drive but now I wonder if I didn't do something else.
Can't remember from the top of my head right now.
If I posted wrong instructions, please accept my apologies.

[KernelPanic]

Cakum is correct, the 'auto' does refer to the filesystem. To stop it mounting at boot you should remove that whole line. I don't think this is what he meant though, doesnt he mean a CD being mounted when inserted.

[flap]

how is it managing to mount audio cds? are they enhanced?

[Calum]

well i know that the following answer will be wrong because i have tried both mandrake and red hat and the following is mandrake specific, but to stop mandrake automounting CDs and floppies after an install, i have to do:

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(actually i usually just do 'emacs /etc/fstab' and fix it according to 'man mount')

as i said though, that's probably not the answer. do 'supermount --help' to just make sure. if you get a little blurb about supermount then it's worth doing the above. what's your current fstab say anyway?

[ January 30, 2003: Message edited by: Calum: Member # 81 ]

[flap]

He doesn't want to disable automount altogether, just for audio cds. Which confuses me as audio cds can't be mounted.

[pkd_lives]

I think he means auto playing of audio CDs, in which case under System (settings?) there is a disk management option, which can be used to determine what happens when you put a disk in the drive. Play, open Nautilus, automount.

[Ice-9]

Yeah well my bad, I'm sorry I have given wrong info.

I could've sworn that this was what I did on my other pc when first testing RH, it was involving fstab, but also autofs and auto.master I think.

[Calum]

sorry too from me. i am very dumb, and didn't see the word 'audio'.

[Master of Reality]

so now we must ask the question... what is playing the CDs automatically, because wouldnt it be a program specific operation which makes it automatically play audio CDs?

..... and i bet void main was laughing at all your replies the whole time, him being all observant and noticing that it was an audio CD.

[ January 30, 2003: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

[RudeCat7]

O.k.,

I regret using the wrong term, I meant to say that KsCd tries to play an audio cd when I put it in the drive.
It actually doesn't even play them, it just spins which pisses me off even more.
I checked out the KsCd configuration itself, and the option to autoplay upon insertion is supposed to be off.

I just want to BURN! BURN! BURN! with my l337 burning 5|<1ll5  

[ January 30, 2003: Message edited by: Black & White Cat ]

[RudeCat7]

bumpity bump....  

[pkd_lives]

In the GUI, try Redhat>preferences>CD properties. It is set to run a CD by default on insertion. Uncheck the box.