How can I stop a partition being mounted in Leopard?

MikeHunt79 · 20 Dec 2008 at 19:05

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 · 20 Dec 2008 at 19:15

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 · 20 Dec 2008 at 19:17

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 · 20 Dec 2008 at 20:44

Cybertronic said:
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 · 20 Dec 2008 at 21:03

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