How can I stop a partition being mounted in Leopard?

[MikeHunt79]

I've got a partition on my drive that I do not want OSX to mount on bootup...

I had a look for /etc/fstab but it does not exist... So what's the "apple way" of doing this?

 

[Cybertronic]

Unfortunately, you have to do it the UNIX way and "/etc/fstab" does exist

You can follow this guide which is for hiding the Boot Camp partition but it's exactly what you're after. After following the guide, you can always manually mount the partition whenever you open Disk Utility

 

[yashiro]

How can I stop being mounted by a Leopard?

Sorry that's how read the title at first

Just create the fstab, basically.

http://www.gigoblog.com/2007/05/01/prevent-mac-os-x-from-mounting-a-hard-drive-volume-at-boot/
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060930150059172

 

[Feek]

Unfortunately, you have to do it the UNIX way and "/etc/fstab" does exist

You can follow this guide which is for hiding the Boot Camp partition but it's exactly what you're after. After following the guide, you can always manually mount the partition whenever you open Disk Utility

Excellent guide, I've just done this to hide my Boot Camp partition which I'd previously hidden using the . thing. It no longer appears in Finder but sadly VMWare Fusion still displays a Boot Camp partition which I don't want it to do as I have no intention of using my Boot Camp partition in VMWare.

 

[Sic]

I just rename it .Windows or something. Don't care about VMWare picking it up as it's not a bootcamp partition anyway.