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How can I temporarily suspend Nautilus filesystem automounting, without making permanent changes to the system and user configuration?

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http://askubuntu.com – I have written a tool which automatically formats and copies files to USB flash drives when they are inserted. It needs the drive to be unmounted to format it. Normally Nautilus will automatically mount the drive when inserted, so I have to wait for this to happen and then unmount the drive before formatting it. The only problem is that if the user has disabled automounting then my program will wait forever. I could change the dconf auto-mount setting when my program starts, and then change it back when it exits, but this is not a good solution because the setting wil not be restored if my p (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 11/20/2012

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