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I have a question regarding the auto-mounting of my Nikon camera. When the camera is connected via USB the memory card of the camera is mounted and displays as a drive on the task bar. This causes conflict with tethering programs that need to take control of the camera. I can disable auto-mounting altogether using dconf, but it is a pain to keep turning it on and off all the time. How can just disable the behaviour for this camera alone and nothing else? Thanks in advance :)

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Let's say your device is /dev/sdb1. Using lsusb get the ID of your device (it will be something like 0651:1722 or whatever)

Create a script called script.sh in /lib/udev (you may have to use sudo while creating the file) and put the following lines in it:

#!/bin/bash

udisks --unmount /dev/sdb1
udisks --detach /dev/sdb

Save it and make it executable with:

chmod +x /lib/udev/script.sh

Make a udev rule file called 100-unmount-SDcard.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/ (again you should use sudo to create this file) and populate it with:

ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="<your-id>", ATTRS{idProduct}=="<your-id>", RUN+="/lib/udev/script.sh"

Save the file and run:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

For more options see Prevent a specific USB device from auto-mounting

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