[Novalug] Temporarily Turning Off Automounting of USB under gnome, ubuntu

[Bonnie Dalzell]

I first tried asking this in an ubuntu group but did not get an answer I
could understand so I am asking you all since I generally get an answer I
can understand and use from this group.

I have a ubuntu edgie set up.

I use gnome desktop

I have a olympus camera wherre the flash card  seems to be
corrupted - the camera cannot format it.

one of the things I want to try before giving up on the flash card it 
to have the computer format it as fat 16.

however when I put it in the usb reader and connect that to the computer
what happens is that some component of gnome recognizes it as a "phot
card" and launches this unwanted requestor that asks me if i want to
import photos. so i turn that requestor off and bring up gparted adn
unmount the card from within gparted and mark it to be formatted as a
fat16 drive and then do the apply from gparted and part way through the
gparted formatting the unhelpfil application about recognizing 
a photo card and importing it pops up which causes gparted to report a
failure in formatting the flash card.

grrrrrrrrr.  

we tried formatting the thing on our MAC and unfortunately the MAC leaves
some files on the photocard which I don't want.

I admit that the card itself may be dead - at least as far as the
camera is concerned - but I don't like having an option that insists on
stepping in and doing something automatically that I cannot stop.

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