Biovital Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 I'm starting a new thread because I tried asking for help in this thread in the Genius Bar but no one has replied for a long time so I hope I can get some replies here. I have iatkos installed (see sig for specs) on a single SATA harddrive. Windows 7 was installed 1st, using a 500gb partiton for data, and the 100mb partition for the System Reserved partition (boot files etc). Then I installed iatkos on the remaining space on the HD, ending up with Chameleon V2 bootloader and all is working well. I want to automatically unmount the Windows Partitions as I have no need for them when Im in OS X. I followed all the instructions in this thread to the letter, but only the login script worked, and only for the windows partition, not the System Reserved one. Here is my partition layout: Last login: Tue Jun 1 10:00:27 on ttys000 joes-imac:~ Joe$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *596.2 Gi disk0 1: Windows_NTFS System Reserved 100.0 Mi disk0s1 2: Windows_NTFS Windows 439.4 Gi disk0s2 3: Apple_HFS OSX 156.7 Gi disk0s3 joes-imac:~ Joe$ And here is my fstab file: joes-imac:~ Joe$ cat /etc/fstab LABEL=Windows none ntfs ro,noauto LABEL=System/040Reserved none ntfs ro,noauto joes-imac:~ Joe$ editing the fstab has no effect whatsoever. Nothing happens when I reboot. I dont know if its a permissions issue (if so what should it be set to?) or what. I've tried the rw switch with no luck either. Also Im not sure if I'm doing the /040 thing right. Apparently spaces in partition names (like System Reserved) wont work unless you throw in /040 but I dont know why or how to do it properly if thats the case. I should mention I have NTFS-3G/Macfuse installed, so I dont know if that has something to do with it. So can someone please aid me in automatically unmounting windows partitions during boot. I know I can add a . before the name of the partition (well I cant for system reserved) but thats not a fix and I wont do that. Gotta figure out how to do it the right way via fstab. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biovital Posted June 2, 2010 Author Share Posted June 2, 2010 Come on, no one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustang Sally Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Come on, no one? http://blog.julipedia.org/2007/01/hide-volume-in-mac-os-x.html http://www.google.ca/search?q=hiding+partitions+in+mac+osx&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=&redir_esc=&ei=Q3kGTP2XMpmINcT54YYJ try that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustang Sally Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 here's a good artical http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060930150059172 you need to save it as just fstab without any extentions, if your using the fstab.hd file then that's why it doesn't work. this sample works for me UUID=your uuid here none ntfs ro,noauto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memorial Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 1. Learn to use Google. 2. Learn to add things to the (LoginHook) script. (I bet you forgot to use quotes for the name of the "System Reserved" Volume) 3. Use UUID instead of LABEL in the fstab. 4. If you are using Paragon NTFS (this may also apply to NTFS-3G, which you are using) try this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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