> > The auto-mounting is being handled by either GNOME or KDE. This happens > with any external removable media, such as CDROMs, thumb drives, and > external disks. /media is the mountpoint used for the automount, and if > a filesystem label exists on your media's filesystem, then the mount > point will be /media/label, in your case, /media/backup. > > Adding the entry to /etc/fstab would mean that you want the disk mounted > by the init on boot, rather than your preferred desktop manager. So, > if you don't want it mounted on boot, don't add it to your fstab. Also, > if added, and it's not present during boot, this will hang your boot > process wating for you to confirm it's missing before continuing. > > It looks like you guys led me in the right direction. Thanks. The basic idea for me was to not have the system auto-mount the drive but Gnome by default does just that with a USB connection and when it does auto-mount the drive it mounts it on the /media directory. So I changed the mount point in my fstab file to /mnt/backup and that seems to have taken care of the problem. It doesn't seem to be auto-mounting the drive and the icon is not showing up on the desktop which was what I was aiming for. The only irritation is the mounting process seems to occupy the drive for an inordinate amount of time although I can access the drive fairly quickly after issuing the mount command. '
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