On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 10:37 -0400, Bob Chiodini wrote: > > Is kjournald the mounter? Is it because it is an ext3 partition? My > > other partitions are xfs. > No, kjournald handles the ext3 journal for the filesystem. Most likely > the gnome-volume-manager is mounting the filesystem for you. The fstab > 'noauto' option stops it from being mounted at boot time. > > Open the GConf editor then under desktop->gnome->volume_manager uncheck > automount_drives. Maybe that will help. It looks like this option is > all encompassing and may not be what you want if you use removable > drives. I unchecked "mount removable media when inserted" in gnome-volume-properties and now hda3 is not mounted, but this is no solution for me. I want CDs automounted. I think this is a bug and I will report it to bugzilla. thanks vassilios