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I have a SD card which is always inserted in my SD-card slot. However, I do not often use it (but do not want to take it out). Currently, it's being auto-mounted every time I start my computer. I feel this might over time wear out the SD card unnecessarily. So my question is: how to prevent this particular SD card from being mounted automatically? Whenever I need it, I'll mount it manually.

I've found this article: http://www.tuxradar.com/answers/706

Which explains exactly what to do using HAL, but given that HAL is deprecated I'm looking for a way of doing this using udev.

Using Arch Linux.

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Is it listed in your /etc/fstab and are you sure it is actually being mounted? Normally unlisted disks are shown in the GUI but not actually mounted until you try to open them. – psusi Jun 14 '12 at 0:57
It's in fact not listed in /etc/fstab, but it becomes available automatically at /var/run/media, without any additional GUI interaction necessary... – user1162541 Jun 14 '12 at 1:51
Did my answer work for you? – killermist Jul 24 '12 at 13:17

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Devices mentioned in /etc/fstab will be treated as mentioned there-in. This will prevent whatever auto-system is used to deal with "unknown" devices, when attached.

http://superuser.com/a/439079/139040 includes the recommendation I came up with for how to deal-with/defeat the auto-mounting systems of OSX, but the concepts should translate.

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Thanks, will try this out soon! – user1162541 Jul 7 '12 at 23:37

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