mikewong27 Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Hi All, I'm wondering if there is a way to modify or change what is automounted in Mac OS 10.4.10? Currentlly my mac OS is automounting all of my partitions (both windows and Mac OS partitions) whenever I log into the system. I want to prevent automount from automounting my windows partition. Is there a way to set this up? Please let me know. Thanks, Mikey Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65069-automount-on-mac-osx-10410-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
aprodigy Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 well, i don't have a solution for your specific problem but i can lead you the way a bit... the magic file is... /etc/fstab (doesn't exist, but IT IS VALID and supposed to be read) if you're used to any gnu/linux, it's working exactly as an opposite here. you don't define whats supposed to be mounted (the automount-daemon is taking care of that obviously), you just define what's not to become mounted or mounted in whatever-special-way... do a 'man fstab' to see some of its documentation... an entry like LABEL=WindowsXP none ntfs noauto 0 0 doesn't get *me* anywhere though... ntfs-3g uuid's are for whatever reason zeroed, so using them doesn't make sense but i tried that too just for the sake of it but then defined the mount point instead of setting it to 'none' but that didn't do any better either... i tried to replace 'ntfs' with 'ntfs-3g', still the same... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65069-automount-on-mac-osx-10410-question/#findComment-460999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikewong27 Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 well, i don't have a solution for your specific problem but i can lead you the way a bit... the magic file is... /etc/fstab (doesn't exist, but IT IS VALID and supposed to be read) if you're used to any gnu/linux, it's working exactly as an opposite here. you don't define whats supposed to be mounted (the automount-daemon is taking care of that obviously), you just define what's not to become mounted or mounted in whatever-special-way... do a 'man fstab' to see some of its documentation... an entry like LABEL=WindowsXP none ntfs noauto 0 0 doesn't get *me* anywhere though... ntfs-3g uuid's are for whatever reason zeroed, so using them doesn't make sense but i tried that too just for the sake of it but then defined the mount point instead of setting it to 'none' but that didn't do any better either... i tried to replace 'ntfs' with 'ntfs-3g' too. still the same... Thanks for your reply. I'll try modifying the fstab file in /etc and let you know if it works or not. Mike Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65069-automount-on-mac-osx-10410-question/#findComment-461036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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