Joachim Schrod wrote:
> Somehow SUSE 10.0 is set up to mount USB disk devices automatically
> as subfs on /media/* where "*" is the disk name.
>
> While that has been OK so far for USB sticks (I don't use them
> often anyhow), it is not what I want for my shiny new 500GB USB
> disk that I want to use for videos.
>
> I would like to prevent that disk to be mounted via the subfs
> mechanism, but want to use my own mount parameters.
> Actually, I don't want to turn off the automatism completely,
> that's convenient for USB sticks. I just want to turn it off for
> this one disk.
> Therefore, how can I do that?
>
> I have no problem in mounting and/or umounting this disk manually
> (it will be on all the time, so I can simply add it to fstab to
> handle it during boot/shutdown).
$> cat /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/no_usbdisk_automount.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="storage.drive_type" string="disk">
<match key="storage.bus" string="usb">
<match key="info.vendor" string="WDC WD30">
<match key="info.product" string="00JB-00KFA0">
<merge key="storage.policy.should_mount" type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
</match>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Vendor and product strings need to be changed to match your 500GB USB
disk (see "lshal" for details). Do not forget to restart HAL.
Hope this helps,
Thomas
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