On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:35:25 -0700 (PDT), don vogt wrote: > 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 On March 26th you gave your user "donvogt" the privilege to mount internal hard-disks. Normally that means you were prompted for the root password. Run as root "polkit-grant --delete donvogt" or delete the corresponding ticket in /var/run/PolicyKit manually. After unmounting the partitions, they should not come back next time you log in.