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I am using 'autofs' to automatically mount my cdrom, dvd, zip, and Jaz
drives.
However, at times 'autofs' seems to try to mount the filesystems even
when they are not being referenced, particularly during startup and
shutdown.

Since the removable drives often don't have media in them, this
activity results in a cluttering of my syslog and console messages
with errors due to lack of media and the ability to perform the
automount.

Why is automount trying to mount these partitions even when not asked?
How can I stop/avoid this behavior?

I am running autofs 3.1.7 under a pretty standard RH7.3 system.
The automount partitions are all mounted off of /automount.

Thanks,
Jeff

Quote:> Why is automount trying to mount these partitions even when not asked?
> How can I stop/avoid this behavior?

Quick test:  check if you've got an Autorun.desktop file in your
~/.kde/Autostart directory.  If so, delete it.  Log out, log back in again,
see if the CD-ROM drive is nice and quiet now.

If not, just copy /etc/skel/.kde/Autostart/Autorun.desktop back into your
~/.kde/Autostart/ directory, log out, log in again, and autorun will be
back to normal.

The potential downside to disabling autorun with KDE is that CDs won't be
automatically mounted anymore.  (Autorun is the program that does that for
you.)

HTH!
--Brett

Quote:> If you're using the KDE desktop, it's probably autorun (not automount)
> that's causing your headache.  Autorun polls the CD-ROM drive at fixed
> intervals (1 second, IIRC), just in case you might've inserted a CD-ROM.

> Quick test:  check if you've got an Autorun.desktop file in your
> ~/.kde/Autostart directory.  If so, delete it.  Log out, log back in again,
> see if the CD-ROM drive is nice and quiet now.

> If not, just copy /etc/skel/.kde/Autostart/Autorun.desktop back into your
> ~/.kde/Autostart/ directory, log out, log in again, and autorun will be
> back to normal.

Also, not only my CDs, but also my zip and dos drive seem to get
automounted. Finally, the automount seems to occur mostly at boot and
shutdown so it seems to be driven by some system level event rather
than by a user deskop event.

Any thoughts??