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ubuntu 9.10 x64 alpha 4 auto mounts win7 system reserve.

Asked by Gharrrrr

i am dual booting win7x64 with ubuntu 9.10 x64 alpha 4. everythin works gold (with the occasional crash) but every time i log in, an authorization prompt pops up in an attempt to mount my win7 system reserve partition. Now, i just expect it and hit cancel, but it would be nice if i could find a fix or a way to halt this. thanx!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

does the partition appear in /etc/fstab?

You can view your partitions with:

sudo fdisk -l

If they are not in fstab then you may have to find a way to blacklist the partition in gconf (I hate gconf) so it isnt attemoted to be automounted.

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Gharrrrr (gharrrrr) said : 		#2

here is what i get when i run sudo fdisk -l

 Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xacabbd3e

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 26230 210582890 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 26231 30401 33503557+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 26231 30224 32081773+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 30225 30401 1421721 82 Linux swap / Solaris

its sda1 that keeps trying to mount. Also, never used gconf. any pointers?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Ok that's cool. Can you provide the output of:
gedit /etc/fstab

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Gharrrrr (gharrrrr) said : 		#4

her is what i have in /etc/fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=9847733e-b694-40ca-8391-e143b60f4cb9 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=8f6298e5-7bde-44c4-93cb-0b02e6867053 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom2 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

OK good so far, there is no /dev/sda1 in fstab which is a bonus.

I found this. I dont use windows anymore at all so cannot verify it personally but a forum:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/stop-automount-of-xp-partition-in-fedora-9gnome-687334/

Says this will block the partition:

gnome-mount --write-settings --mount-options noauto --device /dev/sda1

(does not need sudo as it is editting your users gconf)

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Gharrrrr (gharrrrr) said : 		#6

oh man, after reading all that on linuxquestions i was sure this would work, but it didn't :P Wondering if it might be one of the other partitions. gonna try and post back. thanks for all your help though!

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Alexandros (alexandros-t) said : 		#7

Check this out: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devicekit-disks/+bug/396448. It's actually a bug with a package called devicekit-disks.

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Gharrrrr (gharrrrr) said : 		#8

dude! Thank u. This is awesome. Thanks for ur time and wrk on my question.

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Alexandros (alexandros-t) said : 		#9

I have just been notified that the bug has been fixed. The update which fixes your problem will be rolled out soon.