On Sat 10 Feb 2018 at 16:09:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 10 February 2018 15:27:09 David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 10 Feb 2018 at 15:08:58 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 10 February 2018 11:57:38 David Wright wrote: > > > > On Sat 10 Feb 2018 at 09:10:40 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > And despite my emasculation of udev, disabling sdd, according to > > > > > the syslog, usbmount is still auto mounting these cards, all 3 > > > > > of them. > > > > You wrote: ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ > > > > > > > So if I plan on working with these images on this machine with > > > > > gparted, I imagine I had better find usbmount and remove its > > > > > execute bits. But first make my baby some breakfast. > > > > > > > > Oh my, what did you expect? > > > > > > For something as potentially obnoxious as that, an easily thrown > > > switch to enable/disable it. It is NOT in /etc/init.d. > > > > What isn't in /etc/init.d? What do you expect to be in /etc/init.d? > > usbmount. I expected to find a starter script with a recognizable name.
Your expectations on where usbmount puts its files are completely and utterly unfounded. > > Why? > > Why not? At least that would give this hacker a target to throw a hatchet > at. David Wright meant - why did you expect usbmount (which you have determined is not on your machine) to put a file in /etc/init.d? > > > > Package: usbmount > > > > > > > > Description-en: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage > > > > devices > > > > > > > > This package automatically mounts USB mass storage devices > > > > (typically USB pens) when they are plugged in, and unmounts them > > > > when they are removed. The mountpoints (/media/usb[0-7] by > > > > default), filesystem types to consider, and mount options are > > > > configurable. When multiple devices are plugged in, the first > > > > available mountpoint is automatically selected. If the device > > > > provides a model name, a symbolic link /var/run/usbmount/MODELNAME > > > > pointing to the mountpoint is automatically created. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > David. > > > > > > No such critter on this wheezy box. > > > > So how do you explain the above? This is getting silly. > > Silly? Not in the least. At least I don't often equate silly with > frustrating. Something is starting this "usbmount" thingy, and its not > me. This is the "usbmount" thingy critter which is absent from your box? > sudo grep -R usbmount /etc/* > has been peeking under the covers in etc for around 5 minutes now, no > hits. Not surprising if it doesn't exist. > So in this admittedly corner case, the thing needs an on/off switch so > gparted CAN do its thing without fighting with what somebody no doubt > thought was one of their better brainstorms. Its turned what should be a > simple operation on working 64GiB disk, whose last data is just past > 4GiB, and I want to then make another image file that only includes the > used area of the disk, into a major PAIN IN THE ASS. This is how > raspbian and ayufan prepare the images they release, so why the hell > can't I do it too? > > Grep finally found it, and it does have a switch, so for now its turned > off on this machine. Hopefully that will also stop the cell phone icons > from showing up when I plug it in for charging. Where did it find it? Looking for hairs on the palms of your hands sounds a more useful exercise than the one you have undertaken. Bet you find those too. :) -- Brian.