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I am running a PI3 headless with Debian 11.8. The PI3 has a HDD permanently connected to a USB port.

This HDD is automatically mounted at boost, and I do not want that. I want to manually mount the HDD.

Permanently disabling USB automount would make the deal.

I have tried with fstab and the noauto option, but unsuccessfully. I have tried editing gsetting parameters, but unsuccessfully, too.

Thanks for any help

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I am answering my own question.

I discovered that although the PI3 was running headless, it was in runlevel 5, which enables automount.

I run the raspbian-config script and chose to boot in console mode in the system parameters. It now boots in runlevel 3. My HDD is no longer automounted at boot. And I still can mount it manually.

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    Quick note: "Runlevels" are a vestige of SysV init, which contemporary Debian does not really use, but there is an adaptive layer to convert SysV commands to systemd. So the difference here is between graphical.target and multi-user.target; you can get the current setting with systemctl get-default. However, pretty sure the automounting is something that's done by the DE (desktop environment), which only happens when someone logs into it, otherwise all that's running is the GUI login -- likely you had autologin set.
    – goldilocks ♦
    Commented Jan 10 at 17:12

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