Pardon the newbie speak. I installed Mint 14.1 MATE 64-bit. I have several hard drives with various partitions and after some research used mountmanager to change the /etc/fstab so they would automount at start. (I wish there was some English documentation on mountmanager, I did a lot of playing with it to figure it out.) Now when I boot up they mount fine, but my desktop is covered with the folders showing their contents.
Is there a step I've missed that would prevent those directories from opening automatically. It's a bit of a nuisance to have to close them all before starting my work. Thanks.
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[SOLVED] Automount opens all drives as directory windows
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[SOLVED] Automount opens all drives as directory windows
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Re: Automount opens all drives as directory windows
In order for anyone to help you they will need to see the damage mountmanager has done so please post the output of the following commands:
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cat /etc/fstab
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sudo blkid -c /dev/null
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Re: Automount opens all drives as directory windows
Thanks. Here's the output from those:altair4 wrote:In order for anyone to help you they will need to see the damage mountmanager has done so please post the output of the following commands:Code: Select all
cat /etc/fstab
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sudo blkid -c /dev/null
cat /etc/fstab
UUID=228d9328-00cb-4c3c-babc-0eb636a380bf swap swap sw 0 0
UUID=1300d096-8d7b-42a5-bb81-30e57f5cf23d / ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=b2eaa6cd-328e-46c0-8484-aca4db64c8f5 /media/brian/Brian ext3 defaults 0 0
UUID=dd8dca79-ca22-4902-b085-0bd931bb38d7 /media/brian/head ext3 defaults 0 0
UUID=0d328d3a-65cb-4695-a695-e96dd5e59ec7 /media/brian/ear ext3 defaults 0 0
UUID=41df01ee-2ada-432a-9c67-95a3c5a36358 /media/brian/eye ext3 defaults 0 0
UUID=9431dfeb-2694-4a0b-9093-deb013548677 /media/brian/heart ext3 defaults 0 0
blkid -c /dev/null returns nothing, terminal just sits there blank. I went to look in the /etc folder and when I hit Computer I get an error message that my floppy disk can't be mounted, though I don't have a floppy drive, if that's significant. Thanks for your help.
Re: Automount opens all drives as directory windows
Because you didn't preface that command with sudo:blkid -c /dev/null returns nothing, terminal just sits there blank.
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sudo blkid -c /dev/null
Anyway, Let's take this as an example:
[1] Unmount the partition:UUID=b2eaa6cd-328e-46c0-8484-aca4db64c8f5 /media/brian/Brian ext3 defaults 0 0
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sudo umount /media/brian/Brian
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sudo mkdir /mnt/Brian
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gksu gedit /etc/fstab
[4] And change the line to this:
[5] Save fstab and then run the following command:UUID=b2eaa6cd-328e-46c0-8484-aca4db64c8f5 /mnt/Brian ext3 defaults 0 0
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sudo mount -a
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Re: Automount opens all drives as directory windows
You could disable floppy drive and even floppy controller in BIOS (if applicable), the floppy hardware interface dates back to the 1980s and is so dumb (even for the time) that it does not know if a floppy drive is present or not. (it does not know either if a floppy is inserted or not, whereas some old computers could)
For your other problem, maybe it's to do with the configuration of Caja, the file manager.
I've looked at options : Edit, Preferences, Media, "Browse media when inserted"
I'd say it is most certainly this ; what happens to you everytime you log in is similar to when you plug in an USB drive to your computer : the content shows up.
mountmanager problably put a script or scripts somewhere that trigger this "mounting of media" event when you log in.
perhaps something to do with udev, so you could look in /etc/udev/rules.d if there's something.
From apt-cache show mountmanager in Mint 13 :
For your other problem, maybe it's to do with the configuration of Caja, the file manager.
I've looked at options : Edit, Preferences, Media, "Browse media when inserted"
I'd say it is most certainly this ; what happens to you everytime you log in is similar to when you plug in an USB drive to your computer : the content shows up.
mountmanager problably put a script or scripts somewhere that trigger this "mounting of media" event when you log in.
perhaps something to do with udev, so you could look in /etc/udev/rules.d if there's something.
From apt-cache show mountmanager in Mint 13 :
Description-en: User-friendly management of disks and partitions
The basic functionalities of MountManager are:
- Mount and unmount partitions (ext3/2, ntfs, swap, fat, reiserfs, iso9660,
udf, ...)
- Show all logical and physical disks
- Change config file /etc/fstab
- Descriptions of options and other settings of mounting
- Restoration system
- Images mounting and unmounting (Nrg, Mdf , Ccd, Bin , etc)
- Udev rules creation
- Disk wizard
- Etc...
.
Plugins are supported and there is good English and Russian documentations to
help develop new plugins.
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/linuxtuner/
Re: Automount opens all drives as directory windows
All of the partitions that he has automounting and showing up on the desktop are defined by lines like this in his fstab:I'd say it is most certainly this ; what happens to you everytime you log in is similar to when you plug in an USB drive to your computer : the content shows up.
*** Mount a partition in /media or your home directory and a mount icon appears on the desktop.UUID=b2eaa6cd-328e-46c0-8484-aca4db64c8f5 /media/brian/Brian ext3 defaults 0 0
*** Mount them anywhere else ( my suggestion was /mnt ) and they will not show up on the desktop.
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