Hal automount question

I new to arch and so far i like it!
I am dealing wuth hal to automount my other partitions, i when i use nautilus i have listed at list 8 partitions/devices wich HAL mount.
How can i configure this, to only mount what i want? for example i have sabayon linux installed in one partion and i don't want hal to mount this, but at the same time, i want my mp4 player or my dvd device automounted.
PD: In this case is better if i use fstab?
thanks ain advance! and thanks for this great OS

TSP, I ended up trying this "outdated" tip and it worked.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL
As root, create a file named 90-user-methods.fdi in /etc/hal/fdi/policy. Then paste the following in
<xml>
<deviceinfo>
<device>
<match>
<merge>true</merge>
<match>
<merge>false</merge>
<merge>true</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Then restart HAL, /etc/rc.d/hal restart.
Cheers.

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/////////// edit
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TSP, I ended up trying this "outdated" tip and it worked.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL
As root, create a file named 90-user-methods.fdi in /etc/hal/fdi/policy. Then paste the following in
<xml>
<deviceinfo>
<device>
<match>
<merge>true</merge>
<match>
<merge>false</merge>
<merge>true</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Then restart HAL, /etc/rc.d/hal restart.
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Hi there,
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3)
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>> Thank you for you help! <<
Last edited by cyberius (2010-05-30 14:53:17)

1)
replace ...
hi
thanks, it worked!
2)
use udev rules or autofs.
are udev rules and autofs two different ways of automounting devices?
i'm not shure, but i think i read on beginners wiki somewhere that hal automounts my drives?
hal, udev, autofs.. i'm confused
hm i read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev and created those files (with content) as they are written in the wiki
/etc/udev/rules.d/11-media-by-label-auto-mount.rules
/etc/udev/rules.d/10-my-media-automount.rules
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i know that
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sda sda1 sda2 sdb sdb1
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Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied.
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[SOLVED] trying to get my keyboard layout to work, & hal to mount..

hi,
prior to the recent xorg upgrade, i had my xorg.conf set my keyboard layout, and hal would automount my phone in pcmanfm. since the xorg update, for the sake of not having to to set up the new hotplugging, I disabled it in my xorg.conf so my keyboard would keep its layout.
obviously though, with hot plugging switched off, hal wont mount my phone, so i am trying to get my keyboard set up and get hal automounting.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 
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<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
<merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>

<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">kbd</merge>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="Linux">
<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">logiaccess</merge>
</match>
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
basically, my keyboard is still in us layout, and hal still wont mount my phone even after restarting X! what have i missed?
Last edited by ninjaprawn (2008-12-16 20:29:09)

ok, i managed to fix the problem. i edited the .fdi file as follows;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keymap">
<append key="info.callouts.add" type="strlist">hal-setup-keymap</append>
</match>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
<merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">base</merge>

<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
string="Linux">
<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">evdev</merge>
</match>
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string" />
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
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