Stop a drive from automounting

[Derek Broughton]

Edgars ?mits wrote:

> On 10/7/07, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
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>> On 10/4/07, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Im trying to recover my hd and I need to resize another drive. Im
>> > using LIVE CD to do this. But the second drive, my backup drive, keeps
>> > remounting itself after I unmount it. I cant get GParted to resize it
>> > before it mounts again.
>> >
>> > How do I stop this?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Comment its entry in /etc/fstab and reboot
>>
> It's probably easier for a newbie (such as myself) to simply turn off
> automount in Preferences - Removable Drives & Media until they have
> finished their resizing.

Probably, since automounted drives aren't usually _in_ fstab :-)
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derek