Are you aware of a possibility to change the actual mount point?

Regards, Andras

That is actually pretty close to what I’m trying to achieve. I’m also trying to disable the Nautilus popup sometimes, since it’s nice to have that sometimes it completely screws the media system I use.

I’ve spent hours and hours trying to work out how to configure one single thing in this gnome system and this thread is only thing I’ve managed to find that has given me the clue as to how to do it, and even how to properly invoke gconftool. I may have ignored some search results that would have been relevent of course.

Just venting a bit as I’ve spent so much time since installing one of these new fangled systems saying “I’ve never come across such bad/lacking documentation on XYZ”. Next someone will be telling me how sysv init scripts aren’t fit for purpose and I need to use some complicated upstart thing to achieve what I’ve been doing for 20yrs without it.

$ gconftool-2 –direct –config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory –type bool –set /desktop/gnome/volume_manager/automount_media false

$ gconftool-2 –direct –config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory –type bool –set /desktop/gnome/volume_manager/automount_drives false

I ran those commands and then I rebooted the machine.

I am trying to run several virtual Windows machines using VMWare. The automounting is a huge problem for me because as soon as I insert a flash drive, Ubuntu grabs it and then it is not accessible to the virtual machines. That is a huge problem because I can’t really use any of my virtual machines unless I can access local media, especially flash drives and DVDs.

I tried unmounting the drives but that doesn’t seem sufficient to let VMWare make them visible to the virtual machine. I’m not sure if that’s because the umount is too late, or if there is some other process that runs that keeps VMWare from making them available to the virtual machine.

The nicest solution would let me decide on-the-fly if I want to mount a removable media or not. The next best solution is to disable automounting altogether, and I’ll just mount devices as I need them. But I have yet to figure out how to disable automounting.

I have many years experience with linux so I’ll take any solution, even if it means I have to edit configuration files somewhere. Thanks for any help.

Thanks