> > Tim: > >> Also, your message didn't say *how* you were auto-mounting. AutoFS? > >> With or without /etc/fstab entries, etc? > > Patrick Dupre: > > There is nothing in /etc/fstab > > As I said, it just "automount" when I plug the USB SSD (like a key). > > Then most likely, that would be your desktop environment in charge of > the automounting, then. Which one do you use? Gnome, KDE, Mate, etc. > > I'm using Fedora 42 with Mate on my other PC, and still have CentOS on > this PC (also with Mate). And with either of them, if I plug my old > laptop drive into USB enclosure, then plug that into my system. It > does auto-mount the old Windows partition, and the other partitions are > listed in the file explorer as things I can click on and load up, but > they're not mounted until I do that. > > I don't have the option to "browse media when inserted" selected (which > is more about opening a file lister window, than mounting), on either > of them. And temporarily enabling that, didn't make any difference. > > That drive has this on it: > 1st partition Fedora /boot > 2nd partition Ye olde Windows Vista > 3rd partition Ext3 partition > > And I recall when plugging in an install ISO dd'd to a USB flash drive > with multiple partitions, one gets auto-mounted, the rest are available > to look at, but not auto-mounted. > This is what I anticipated. I use gnome I am going to clarify the point (see the attached picture) Using the gnome file browser, You can see that the 2 first partitions are mounted automatically (5.2 GB Volume, and the 786 MB Volume) but not the 2 next ones (pdupre and pdupre_ext) Of course, if I click right on them, I can mount them. This is what I consider "auto-mounted" versus manually mounted. This is not really an issue, just trying to understand.
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