Kevlar Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 So I have a NTFS partition for windows and it's only 60gbs that I really don't need access to hardly ever. The drive automounts on boot. How do you make it not automount on boot? I just don't care to see the ugly windows partition anymore. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9794-keep-ntfs-partition-from-automounting-on-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Well it is mounted read-only... I think you boot Windows XP and use the disk management tool (part of the admin tools, system admin something like that). Select and HIDE the partition. If it allows that, it should no longer appear. There's probably a fstab table edit that would make OS X ignore specific partitions also, but my Unix geek factor is still newb. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9794-keep-ntfs-partition-from-automounting-on-boot/#findComment-61213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevlar Posted February 23, 2006 Author Share Posted February 23, 2006 Well, I couldn't figure out a way to have it not automount, but I did figure a way to just hide it.. In Terminal sudo /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V /Volumes/"Stupid Windows Volume Name" holds through a restart and everything.. I am happy now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9794-keep-ntfs-partition-from-automounting-on-boot/#findComment-61302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackentangled Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 what's the command if you wanna undo it? not that i like "stupid windows volume", just in case you need something from it... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9794-keep-ntfs-partition-from-automounting-on-boot/#findComment-61399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevlar Posted February 23, 2006 Author Share Posted February 23, 2006 You can bring it back up in Terminal with sudo /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a v /Volumes/"Stupid Windows Volume Name" so to make invisible use a Capital V and to make it visible use a lowercase v. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9794-keep-ntfs-partition-from-automounting-on-boot/#findComment-61685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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