How to stop automounting hd partitions [Solved]

[bidral]

Hello, I have installed MX Linux 23.2 KDE. Everything is going as expected for now. I hope it will continue well in the future.
The first thing I want to draw your attention to is that I don't want to automatically mount the extra partitions on my hard disk. How is this possible? I would be glad to know that. Thank you all

[m_pav]

Open Xfce Settings, look for Removeable Drives and Media, turn off the options you want to stop.
It's on my list of things to put right straight after a fresh installation.

[dolphin_oracle]

The user is using kde. But i presume there is a similar setting in dolphin.

To be clear just because extra partitions are listed doesn’t mean they are mounted. For internal devices you usually have to do something to mount them.

[bidral]

Thanks, but I can't find any option to disable partition mounting.

[dolphin_oracle]

I mean, the partitions shouldn't be automounting unless they are defined in your /etc/fstab.

otherwise they are just listed in dolphin, but not actually mounted.

there are some options under SystemSettings->Removable Storage. I'm not sure they apply to internal partitions, but they might. there is a "All Known Devices" option.

[siamhie]

@bidral Partitions in KDE (as well as XFCE, fluxbox) won't be automatically mounted at boot time unless you have edited your fstab to do so.

Here I'm booted into KDE (on a triple boot system) and only my root partition is mounted. The other four partitions are not mounted (orange icons next to them).

You can also hide partitions from the device section if you want. (right click on the device and select hide)

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$ blkid
/dev/nvme0n1p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="EFI-SYSTEM" LABEL="EFI-SYSTEM" UUID="D18B-2141" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="boot" PARTUUID="917d581a-0070-477e-8aea-3c3a30ddf25f"
/dev/nvme0n1p2: LABEL="root" UUID="2ddf2dad-ce02-49c0-bd7f-2c1df275b242" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="root" PARTUUID="067de7a7-2442-468c-a309-f309b790f4a1"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="swap" UUID="cff60e0f-9504-4506-897b-e1d32c646cc4" TYPE="swap" PARTLABEL="swap" PARTUUID="4665e3c7-2cdb-4e2c-a906-af074b10735c"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Stream" UUID="3a983c2f-21bf-4ec1-aa81-ca5f36570ba5" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="stream" PARTUUID="030a1960-13ae-4d07-8362-6f0e1fe447ff"
/dev/nvme1n1p2: LABEL="root" UUID="a00fe0ea-b5ac-4571-8ca3-5a5371578480" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="root" PARTUUID="bae10767-ccc5-47ac-bae9-134a07da6f16"
/dev/nvme1n1p1: LABEL="root" UUID="74a0b2d6-f1c1-4d7c-8fb2-bfd21eeaefab" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="root" PARTUUID="2c87e55f-c577-4c4e-8714-f428a03dab8c"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Data" UUID="73184b5c-2cb1-48e2-9eb6-b38b2d2e0022" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="data" PARTUUID="ee705cc0-212b-48b4-99ef-31781d66422a"

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$ cat /etc/fstab
# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
UUID=a00fe0ea-b5ac-4571-8ca3-5a5371578480 / ext4 discard,noatime 1 1
UUID=D18B-2141 /boot/efi vfat noatime,dmask=0002,fmask=0113 0 0
UUID=cff60e0f-9504-4506-897b-e1d32c646cc4 SWAP swap discard

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[oops]

... an easy way is via a GUI like: disk-manager

[pbear]

@bidral, you can easily confirm what everyone is telling you. Open Konsole; run lsblk -f (that's an F). The last column will show which partitions are mounted.
Notice also in Dolphin the little x-in-an-orange-circle siamhe mentions, which correspond to the partitions shown by lsblk as not mounted.

[bidral]

Thanks,
I ran this command and got the following output.

$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sr0 iso9660 Joliet Extension HiSuite 2018-03-07-15-25-02-00
nvme0n1
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat FAT32 CD48-5D66 283.1M 5% /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 ext4 1.0 rootMX23 25ff091c-cf73-4b4c-87d8-6c1a73570 34G 23% /
├─nvme0n1p3 ext4 1.0 homeMX 23fe1303-974b-4496-ac13-ac64705a0 134.6G 23% /home
├─nvme0n1p4 ext4 1.0 fdcadc00-c878-4208-a594-9b36cb899 73.6G 63% /media/nvme0n1p4
└─nvme0n1p5 swap 1 a840d296-6416-4b3e-8d85-7af1fca03 [SWAP]

I noticed that root permission is required to write anything to the extra partition of the hard disk. It's ok. But wanted the extra backup partition to remain unmounted until clicked it's name on file browser's sidebar. It is the default in LinuxMint mate.

[bidral]

Look at the screenshot. Does the 233.4 GB internal drive is not mounted?