turn off automounting of usb drives in Ubuntu

I was having the an annoying issue where nautilus would automount my flash drive. I was doing some automated partitioning and copying of an image to a compact flash card and I did not want this behavior.

There used to be and way to set this under System->Preferences->Removable Drives, but that is gone in Hoary.


Anyway, To disable auto mounting of usb drives under Ubuntu hardy.

open up gconf-editor:

In Terminal:

gconf-editor

Find the entry:
->apps->nautilus->preferences->media_automount

and set to false.