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I am using Ubuntu 9.04 with xfce and it keeps wanting to automount drives that I plugin, is there a way to disable this?

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Uninstalling gnome-volume-manager seems really extreme... Simply turning off GVM's automounting of hot-plugged and inserted removable media would be simpler.

From the Gnome Panel, click System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media and then uncheck the first two boxes on the storage tab. This will turn off automounting for everything not defined in /etc/fstab, and you can turn it back on if desired as easily.

If you just wanted to disable automounting of certain devices you could give them their own line in /etc/fstab, making sure that the fourth field of their line include noauto so they are never automounted.

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Run Nautilus and open Edit => Preferences > Media. Turn off "Browse media when inserted".

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Run gnome-volume-properties in the terminal. Uncheck whatever you do not want mounted automatically (Storage, CDs, etc).

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