Disable automounting in Ubuntu

Question

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 with xfce and it keeps wanting to automount drives that I plugin, is there a way to disable this?

Solution

From here

Uninstalling gnome-volume-manager seems really extreme... Simply turning off GVM's automounting of hot-plugged and inserted removable media would be simpler.

From the Gnome Panel, click System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media and then uncheck the first two boxes on the storage tab. This will turn off automounting for everything not defined in /etc/fstab, and you can turn it back on if desired as easily.

If you just wanted to disable automounting of certain devices you could give them their own line in /etc/fstab, making sure that the fourth field of their line include noauto so they are never automounted.

(Or)

Run Nautilus and open Edit => Preferences > Media. Turn off "Browse media when inserted".

Comments

[mwfearnley]

People from the future might find askubuntu.com/questions/1189715/… or possibly askubuntu.com/questions/1062719/… useful.

[Patryk]

Is there a similar tool for Ubuntu 12.04 ?