Disable Auto-Mounting

Hi Everyone,
I have been searching forum after forum trying to find an answer to my question but am not having any luck. I have found one option but there has to be a better way. As I am taking a Computer Forensics major I need to disable auto-mounting of USB drives so I can manually mount the device with read-only options so I do not destroy evidence on drive I need to investigate.
About 3 versions ago in Ubuntu I was able to just uncheck a box in the system settings so it would not auto-mount. Then they decided to get rid of that option because it was not compatible with changes they made to other parts of the system. So to get around the auto-mounting I found that I could shutdown hal, plug the drive in, issue my mount command, then finally restart hal so network manager and other services that needed it could run right. This seems kind of pointless to have to shut down hal and break things just so I can mount a drive. Since I recently left Ubuntu behind and converted to Arch I thought I would see if you guys had any ideas.
I know I can add options to fstab but since I will get a different drive for every investigation this doesn't seem to be an option either.
Any help you guys could offer would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Timn
Last edited by Timn (2009-11-17 01:18:33)

It is probably your window manager that does the auto-mounting, not arch. If it's gnome, there is a key in the gconf "/apps/nautilus/preferences/media_autorun" which you would need to disable. I do use FluxBox as a WM which does not do any mounting. These are the only window managers for which I can provide specific inforamtion. But no matte what you use, KDE, XFCE or something else, there should be a configuration that allows you to disable it.
If that didn't help, please provide more specific information about your setup.

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