We are in 2015 and this bug seams to be still present in the 15.10 ubuntu version. I want to do a backup of my NAS on a internal hard drive, so just mount this hard drive during the backup and then unmount it. The issue is that it is auto mounted at boot even with the noauto option in the fstab.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-volume-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120829 Title: /dev/sda3 is mounted despite the 'noauto' option in fstab Status in gnome-volume-manager package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: mount besides the Ubuntu feisty installation I have 2 other Linux-partititions formatted ext3. As they contain another system I do not want Ubuntu to touch them. So I edited /etc/fstab and added the option 'noauto' for those entries. Ubuntu does not respect these options and still mounts them at every boot-up. Example with /dev/sda3: 1. line in fstab: # /dev/sda3 UUID=72478130-3425-47ca-92e5-7270e8d3b6b2 /media/sda3 ext3 user,noauto 0 0 2. line in 'cat /proc/mounts': /dev/disk/by-uuid/72478130-3425-47ca-92e5-7270e8d3b6b2 /media/sda3 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,data=ordered 0 0 The 'noauto' option is just ignored! Linux in no way should mount 'foreign' filesystems without confirmation by the user also with respect to security (removable media is a different story). I thus placed a '#' in front of the line in fstab, now Ubuntu complains about 'error mounting local filesystems' on every boot. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jun 17 13:03:31 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3.1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1 ProcCwd: /home/ingo ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-panel Uname: Linux pp 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 06:17:24 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-volume-manager/+bug/120829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
