How do I disable the auto-mounting of internal drives in Ubuntu or Kubuntu 18.04
I'm aware that there are other questions regarding this issue. However, none of them apply specifically to Kubuntu 18.04, and the solutions they offer have not worked. Please look at what I have tried before marking this as a duplicate
I am running Kubuntu 18.04 w/ KDE Plasma 5.12.6 off of a USB drive. This is a full install, not a Live version. The drive serves as a portable system that I can use with most physical computers.
To prevent any damage to the host computer's data. I do not want to automount any internal disk drives on boot. Even better, I'd like to completely disable those drives, so that even a normal sudo mount /dev/sdx wouldn't work, but I'll settle for disabaling auto-mounting to start.
What I've tried
- The most commonly cited answer is to change the
org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automountsetting to false. I've done this using bothgsettingsfrom the command line as well as thedconfgui editor. Both automount and automount-open are set to false - Removing my account (and all accounts) from the plugdev group.
- Confirming that the "Enable automatic mounting of removable media" setting in the Kubuntu
Removeable Devicessettings module is unchcked.
After trying all of these and rebooting, Kubuntu still mounts all discovered partitions, both those on the flash drive and any found on internal drives.
Solutions that won't work
- The other oft-mentioned solution is to disable the auto-mounting of specific devices by adding the device
fstabalong with anoautooption. This solution does not help in my scenario, as I do not know what devices will be present when the system starts up. I would need to somehow configure fstab to default with a noauto for all devices.
mount kubuntu automount
asked Aug 6 '18 at 0:24
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I'm aware that there are other questions regarding this issue. However, none of them apply specifically to Kubuntu 18.04, and the solutions they offer have not worked. Please look at what I have tried before marking this as a duplicate
I am running Kubuntu 18.04 w/ KDE Plasma 5.12.6 off of a USB drive. This is a full install, not a Live version. The drive serves as a portable system that I can use with most physical computers.
To prevent any damage to the host computer's data. I do not want to automount any internal disk drives on boot. Even better, I'd like to completely disable those drives, so that even a normal sudo mount /dev/sdx wouldn't work, but I'll settle for disabaling auto-mounting to start.
What I've tried
- The most commonly cited answer is to change the
org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automountsetting to false. I've done this using bothgsettingsfrom the command line as well as thedconfgui editor. Both automount and automount-open are set to false - Removing my account (and all accounts) from the plugdev group.
- Confirming that the "Enable automatic mounting of removable media" setting in the Kubuntu
Removeable Devicessettings module is unchcked.
After trying all of these and rebooting, Kubuntu still mounts all discovered partitions, both those on the flash drive and any found on internal drives.
Solutions that won't work
- The other oft-mentioned solution is to disable the auto-mounting of specific devices by adding the device
fstabalong with anoautooption. This solution does not help in my scenario, as I do not know what devices will be present when the system starts up. I would need to somehow configure fstab to default with a noauto for all devices.
mount kubuntu automount
asked Aug 6 '18 at 0:24
BrianHVBBrianHVB
1364
1
See unix.stackexchange.com/questions/170549/…
– Panther
Aug 6 '18 at 0:43
@Panther thanks, that worked. As the question/solution is for an older version of Linux, and specifically marked for openSUSE, do you want to write up your comment as an answer? Based on other questions, I think that this is a fairly common request, especially for Kubuntu.
– BrianHVB
Aug 7 '18 at 2:29
@BrianHVP go ahead , give credit as to the source
– Panther
Aug 7 '18 at 6:45
add a comment |
I'm aware that there are other questions regarding this issue. However, none of them apply specifically to Kubuntu 18.04, and the solutions they offer have not worked. Please look at what I have tried before marking this as a duplicate
I am running Kubuntu 18.04 w/ KDE Plasma 5.12.6 off of a USB drive. This is a full install, not a Live version. The drive serves as a portable system that I can use with most physical computers.
To prevent any damage to the host computer's data. I do not want to automount any internal disk drives on boot. Even better, I'd like to completely disable those drives, so that even a normal sudo mount /dev/sdx wouldn't work, but I'll settle for disabaling auto-mounting to start.
What I've tried
- The most commonly cited answer is to change the
org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automountsetting to false. I've done this using bothgsettingsfrom the command line as well as thedconfgui editor. Both automount and automount-open are set to false - Removing my account (and all accounts) from the plugdev group.
- Confirming that the "Enable automatic mounting of removable media" setting in the Kubuntu
Removeable Devicessettings module is unchcked.
After trying all of these and rebooting, Kubuntu still mounts all discovered partitions, both those on the flash drive and any found on internal drives.
Solutions that won't work
- The other oft-mentioned solution is to disable the auto-mounting of specific devices by adding the device
fstabalong with anoautooption. This solution does not help in my scenario, as I do not know what devices will be present when the system starts up. I would need to somehow configure fstab to default with a noauto for all devices.
mount kubuntu automount
asked Aug 6 '18 at 0:24
BrianHVBBrianHVB
1364
I'm aware that there are other questions regarding this issue. However, none of them apply specifically to Kubuntu 18.04, and the solutions they offer have not worked. Please look at what I have tried before marking this as a duplicate
I am running Kubuntu 18.04 w/ KDE Plasma 5.12.6 off of a USB drive. This is a full install, not a Live version. The drive serves as a portable system that I can use with most physical computers.
To prevent any damage to the host computer's data. I do not want to automount any internal disk drives on boot. Even better, I'd like to completely disable those drives, so that even a normal sudo mount /dev/sdx wouldn't work, but I'll settle for disabaling auto-mounting to start.
What I've tried
- The most commonly cited answer is to change the
org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automountsetting to false. I've done this using bothgsettingsfrom the command line as well as thedconfgui editor. Both automount and automount-open are set to false - Removing my account (and all accounts) from the plugdev group.
- Confirming that the "Enable automatic mounting of removable media" setting in the Kubuntu
Removeable Devicessettings module is unchcked.
After trying all of these and rebooting, Kubuntu still mounts all discovered partitions, both those on the flash drive and any found on internal drives.
Solutions that won't work
- The other oft-mentioned solution is to disable the auto-mounting of specific devices by adding the device
fstabalong with anoautooption. This solution does not help in my scenario, as I do not know what devices will be present when the system starts up. I would need to somehow configure fstab to default with a noauto for all devices.
mount kubuntu automount
mount kubuntu automount
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asked Aug 6 '18 at 0:24
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BrianHVB
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asked Aug 6 '18 at 0:24
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See unix.stackexchange.com/questions/170549/…
– Panther
Aug 6 '18 at 0:43
@Panther thanks, that worked. As the question/solution is for an older version of Linux, and specifically marked for openSUSE, do you want to write up your comment as an answer? Based on other questions, I think that this is a fairly common request, especially for Kubuntu.
– BrianHVB
Aug 7 '18 at 2:29
@BrianHVP go ahead , give credit as to the source
– Panther
Aug 7 '18 at 6:45
add a comment |
1
See unix.stackexchange.com/questions/170549/…
– Panther
Aug 6 '18 at 0:43
@Panther thanks, that worked. As the question/solution is for an older version of Linux, and specifically marked for openSUSE, do you want to write up your comment as an answer? Based on other questions, I think that this is a fairly common request, especially for Kubuntu.
– BrianHVB
Aug 7 '18 at 2:29
@BrianHVP go ahead , give credit as to the source
– Panther
Aug 7 '18 at 6:45
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See unix.stackexchange.com/questions/170549/…
– Panther
Aug 6 '18 at 0:43
See unix.stackexchange.com/questions/170549/…
– Panther
Aug 6 '18 at 0:43
@Panther thanks, that worked. As the question/solution is for an older version of Linux, and specifically marked for openSUSE, do you want to write up your comment as an answer? Based on other questions, I think that this is a fairly common request, especially for Kubuntu.
– BrianHVB
Aug 7 '18 at 2:29
@Panther thanks, that worked. As the question/solution is for an older version of Linux, and specifically marked for openSUSE, do you want to write up your comment as an answer? Based on other questions, I think that this is a fairly common request, especially for Kubuntu.
– BrianHVB
Aug 7 '18 at 2:29
@BrianHVP go ahead , give credit as to the source
– Panther
Aug 7 '18 at 6:45
@BrianHVP go ahead , give credit as to the source
– Panther
Aug 7 '18 at 6:45
add a comment |
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The Auto-mounting of disks in Debian-based Linux distros (and perhaps others) comes from a service called udisks2.
Disabling this service will prevent any disk from automatically being mounted, while still allowing manual mounting.
Disable the service - No automatic or manual starts
systemctl mask udisks2
Unmask the service - Will need to either manually run it or restart the computer
systemctl unmask udisks2
systemctl unmask udisk2.service
Stop the service temporarily - This will not persist across restarts
systemctl stop udisks2.service
Get the status
systemctl status udisk2
Credit to @maxschlepzig for answering a similar question about OpenSUSE.
answered Jan 28 at 6:19
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The Auto-mounting of disks in Debian-based Linux distros (and perhaps others) comes from a service called udisks2.
Disabling this service will prevent any disk from automatically being mounted, while still allowing manual mounting.
Disable the service - No automatic or manual starts
systemctl mask udisks2
Unmask the service - Will need to either manually run it or restart the computer
systemctl unmask udisks2
systemctl unmask udisk2.service
Stop the service temporarily - This will not persist across restarts
systemctl stop udisks2.service
Get the status
systemctl status udisk2
Credit to @maxschlepzig for answering a similar question about OpenSUSE.
answered Jan 28 at 6:19
BrianHVBBrianHVB
1364
add a comment |
The Auto-mounting of disks in Debian-based Linux distros (and perhaps others) comes from a service called udisks2.
Disabling this service will prevent any disk from automatically being mounted, while still allowing manual mounting.
Disable the service - No automatic or manual starts
systemctl mask udisks2
Unmask the service - Will need to either manually run it or restart the computer
systemctl unmask udisks2
systemctl unmask udisk2.service
Stop the service temporarily - This will not persist across restarts
systemctl stop udisks2.service
Get the status
systemctl status udisk2
Credit to @maxschlepzig for answering a similar question about OpenSUSE.
answered Jan 28 at 6:19
BrianHVBBrianHVB
1364
add a comment |
The Auto-mounting of disks in Debian-based Linux distros (and perhaps others) comes from a service called udisks2.
Disabling this service will prevent any disk from automatically being mounted, while still allowing manual mounting.
Disable the service - No automatic or manual starts
systemctl mask udisks2
Unmask the service - Will need to either manually run it or restart the computer
systemctl unmask udisks2
systemctl unmask udisk2.service
Stop the service temporarily - This will not persist across restarts
systemctl stop udisks2.service
Get the status
systemctl status udisk2
Credit to @maxschlepzig for answering a similar question about OpenSUSE.
answered Jan 28 at 6:19
BrianHVBBrianHVB
1364
The Auto-mounting of disks in Debian-based Linux distros (and perhaps others) comes from a service called udisks2.
Disabling this service will prevent any disk from automatically being mounted, while still allowing manual mounting.
Disable the service - No automatic or manual starts
systemctl mask udisks2
Unmask the service - Will need to either manually run it or restart the computer
systemctl unmask udisks2
systemctl unmask udisk2.service
Stop the service temporarily - This will not persist across restarts
systemctl stop udisks2.service
Get the status
systemctl status udisk2
Credit to @maxschlepzig for answering a similar question about OpenSUSE.
answered Jan 28 at 6:19
BrianHVBBrianHVB
1364
answered Jan 28 at 6:19
BrianHVBBrianHVB
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answered Jan 28 at 6:19
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answered Jan 28 at 6:19
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See unix.stackexchange.com/questions/170549/…
– Panther
Aug 6 '18 at 0:43
@Panther thanks, that worked. As the question/solution is for an older version of Linux, and specifically marked for openSUSE, do you want to write up your comment as an answer? Based on other questions, I think that this is a fairly common request, especially for Kubuntu.
– BrianHVB
Aug 7 '18 at 2:29
@BrianHVP go ahead , give credit as to the source
– Panther
Aug 7 '18 at 6:45