Here is the answer to a request. It doesn't mean anything to me. I guess I have some research to do. I remember seeing some odd error messages somewhat like that when I was having problems with NetworkManager. polkit-grant --list always: user: donvogt (uid 500) action: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed granted: Wed Mar 26 18:01:05 2008 >I believe it is HAL doing this. If you put them in >/etc/fstab with >the noauto option, they should not get mounted. The >other choice is >to add HAL rules to ignore them. Someone on the list did >some rules >to do that. I will try fstab first, but they are not in ther at all now. >which desktop are you using? Gnome >are they shown iconed as graphic devices or as >folders? They are shown as labeled icons, but there are eight of them. >> They are not in /etc/fstab. >cause may not be from fstab. In case it matters, I recently installed from the livecd and then ran a yum update. I didn't notice when the icons appeared