[PLUG] Disabling automatic mounting of USB connected mass storage

[Richard England]

On 1/7/19 11:27 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 01/07/2019 11:43 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 09:32:01 -0600
>> Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> dijo:
>>
>>> I'm using Debian Stretch with MATE desktop.
>>> I have a collection of USB drives (from 32GB -> 1TB) each with
>>> multiple partitions.
>>>
>>> When I plug them in I don't  want anything automatically mounted.
>>> I want to have them appear in MATE's "Devices" menu for individual
>>> selection.
>>
>> I have only Xfce, but there is a page in the Xfce GUI 'Settings
>> Manager' labeled 'Removable Drives and Media' where this can be done
>> just by unchecking a box. Surely there is a command that unchecking
>> that box invokes. Unfortunately, I don't know how to figure out what
>> the command is from the GUI. But at least I can say that it is possible.
>
> Yep. All the hits I got on DuckDuckGo were for desktops other than MATE.
> A Gnome user on debian-user pointed me to a command line solution:
>    > gsettings set org.mate.media-handling automount false
>
> For my specific project it appears there may be side benefits.
> Will have to do some reading and testing.
>
>
I find on Mate (fedora 29) that going to "Systems > Control center" and 
selecting "File Management" there is an option at the bottom of the 
"Media" tab that should allow you to disable "Browse media when inserted".

~~R