I agree, re: the cause of the mount; in fact I mentioned that as the probable cause.

I disagree, re: automounting without warning. I've made extensive use of the r/w auto-mounted NTFS drive with only minor problems, and never any data loss not caused by me. The worst problem I had is when usage went beyond a certain threshold, it maxed out processor usage and sometimes forced me to shut it down with the power switch "Grand warnings" would frighten people for no good reason IMHO.

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Krishna, that /dev/sda1 mount's probably from the cheat code, not from the OS. The device containing the Knoppix files (either the Live CD or the fromhd= device) is always mounted at /mnt-system as far as I can tell (apparently that directory used to be called /cd-rom before USB and HDD boots became common). That is, if you're able to mount it at all >_< (see my own thread of distress!)

That said, I don't know enough about GNOME to figure out why it's mounting everything at startup (sounds like a "just works"/windows copycat feature), but if you want tight control over filesystems I feel like the command line's the best way to do it, HelpPleas. I know that's kind of a cop-out since GUI functionality existed in the past, but honestly I prefer the command line myself for delicate work. It's less intuitive than the GUI but once you get used to it the extra control is well worth it, especially for things like this where the default GUI behavior is not what you want. Once you know what you want better than the GUI does, it's definitely time to "trust yourself"
I completely agree. And I think we have at least two serious bugs from this thread, if reports are correct:

1. Auto-mounting rw (PCman/GNOME)
2. Mounting NTFS rw without grand warnings - even if it is just to rw-access the persistent image.

I think both should be fixed. RO-mounting is an entirely different issue - doing that automatically is fine with me, even though I prefer a somewhat more lazy system. PCman could be set up with reasonable defaults, I think.