When I plug in an external disk, a notification pops up, that’s annoying. So I disabled it, then every partition on the drive automounted as soon as it was plugged in.
I checked the settings, automount was disabled, I set all device actions to echo, as it’s the only obvious way to disable them. (mate has a checkbox to disable all of them, nice and easy, and works)
There doesn’t seem to be anything in dolphin.
Yet it still auto mounted, so I reset everything, and now it still automounts all partitions, and the notification pops up.
Have I missed something?
Now I’m going to reboot and use mate, because it’s sane and I can get stuff done, instead of tracking down stupid things like this, probably just to find out that they did it on purpose and won’t fix it.
Yes, auto mount was already disabled, I set all the device actions to echo as there was no obvious way to disable them. It had no effect, I’ve since changed them back.
Just disabling the popup should be enough, that’s all I wanted to do, and all I did (to start with, and I rebooted to check). Not sure why that would start automounting things, or why reversing the automounting needs a logout (it didn’t need a logout to start doing it).
EDIT:
Automounting again, no changes. It definitely didn’t mount earlier, I tested several times.
I wonder if in System Settings → Removable Storage → Removable Devices there is a long list of previously-remembered devices, with lots of duplicate entries? … Clearing this out and starting fresh might possibly help. Just an idea.
Yes, Plasma5. I’m on Stable branch. Just a thought, as I checked and mine was full of duplicates … long-running system, first installed approx. 6 years ago.
(I’ll check the other system as that isn’t auto-mounting any more, probably for this reason).
Just a thought, as I checked and mine was full of duplicates … long-running system, first installed approx. 6 years ago.