Show only one disk drive on Desktop

[MrDee]

Does anybody know how to show only one disk drive on the OS X desktop? I am multi-booting with XP x86, x64, Server 2003 x86, x64, Vista x64 and all the disk drive icons show on the desktop. I just want one disk drive icon on the desktop -> Macintosh HD.

 

I notice its a case of all or nothing.

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[DucPilot1]

Any luck on this? I would also like to not auto mount my other OS drives. Apearently OS X doesn't use /etc/fstab as it is blank. What does it use?

[sandmanfvrga]

I think the only way to do this is to NOT automount any drives and just put alias (shortcuts) on the desktop.

[DucPilot1]

I figured out a way to accomplish this with a login script.

 

create a login script similar to :

#!/bin/bash

umount /Volumes/drive1

umount /Volumes/drive2

exit 0

where drive1 and drive2 are the names of the partitions you don't want mounted.

 

I created a folder for shell scripts and keep them all in /Library/scripts, however location doesn't really matter. You do need to ensure that the script is executable.

 

In a terminal :

sudo chmod u+x /path/to/your/scripts/loginscript.sh

 

Then just add the script to run as a loginhook.

 

in Terminal

sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /path/to/your/scripts/loginscript.sh

 

Close the terminal, logout and back in and the drives should be gone.

[domino]

DucPilot1, Your how-to is the second one I can confirm that works. I think yours is the easiest to implement. Can you please start a new thread over at the the Tutorial Forum with your instructions. I have seen far too many of these posts.

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showforum=45

 

And might I suggest instructing the read to create a new script using nano or pico? eg.

 

sudo nano /Library/scripts/umount

 

Before you continue with the rest of your how-to.

 

thanks,

D~