Client: disabling KBFS? (windows)

[draeath]

I installed the keybase client on a windows box to play around. It seems KBFS came with it and I now have an unwanted drive letter.

How can I turn this off? I don't want this functionality. There seems to be nothing regarding turning this off (or even changing the drive letter) in the documentation.

[draeath]

I'd also like to do this on linux. A fuse filesystem was mounted that _i don't want_ and I don't see where this was set up.

[taruti]

Cc @zanderz

[zanderz]

You can remove the startup shortcuts which launch our background processes from %appdata%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup. Soon we will have better support for changing the drive letter, but you can do this with the command keybase config set mountdir X: where X is your new letter.

[jwshields]

This does not seem ideal at all.
I just installed Keybase on a Windows machine of mine. Ever since I installed it, one of my network drives had the KBFS icon on it- I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out where it was coming from, other than the obvious sign it was something Keybase related.

I have a large amount of drives and can't afford to have something mounted when I don't want it there. I don't see any option of disabling it.

[zanderz]

The only way to disable that for now is to modify the startup shortcut. Go to %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup and modify the command line for the KeybaseStartup shortcut, replacing this:
runquiet.exe keybase.exe ctl watchdog2
with:
runquiet.exe keybase.exe ctl watchdog

This will prevent the filesystem service from starting and performing the mount. May need to reboot afterwards.

[draeath]

How is this done on Linux, out of curiosity?

[zanderz]

Update: Running without a KBFS mount is not officially supported, but on Windows you can unofficially you can uninstall Dokan and change your startup shortcut back to watchdog2.

[ageis]

How is this done on Linux, out of curiosity?

@draeath there is an environment variable called KEYBASE_NO_KBFS. export and set it to 1 in your profile/environment/systemd session.