Prevent Mounting of NTFS drives?

[thorin]

So I have BT3 setup on a USB key with persistent changes (per the wiki article). Is there a way to prevent it from automatically mounting the internal NTFS hard drive?

(I don't care is someone manually mounts it later but I don't want it mounted by default at boot time).

[thorin]

I know I can edit /etc/fstab. Unfortunately this doesn't really work. I have a bunch of USB keys to be used in a class where I won't control the machines the USB keys are used on (i.e.: variable drive/partition setups). Therefore I'm looking for a way to control how things are added to fstab when it's generated at start up.

[opreat0r]

*boot with changes and edit /etc/fstab
*uncleanly mounted ntfs volumes will not auto mout
*also if you crypted the partiton too

[thorin]

As I said editing /etc/fstab isn't sufficient as the single ntfs partition on my system may not be the same as the multiple drives/partitions on someone else's system.

I need to find what controls the parameters which are used when things are added to fstab.

[Archangel-Amael]

boot cheat code bt nohd will prevent it from being mounted during boot and will allow it to be booted at a later time.
Other than that you can look at the hal daemon and fstab-sync. fstab-sync controls what gets added to fstab but it is generally not recommended to change it manually.