Comments on: Prevent Mac OS X from mounting a hard drive volume at boot

By: Chad von Nau

Chad von Nau — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:13:12 +0000

As a one-liner: echo "LABEL=BOOTCAMP none ntfs ro,noauto 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:32:06 +0000

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By: Chris Brewer

Chris Brewer — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:43:46 +0000

@Jason: Hi! Mac partitions are always HFS+. A bootcamp partition cannot be HFS+. What we’re talking about here is a Bootcamp partitions (for Windows) that is either NTFS or FAT32, so I’m not sure I’m following your question.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:35:19 +0000

Hey Guys, this post is pretty old but I have a similar problem as this however my drive is mac format HFS+ Will this procedure still work?

Cheers
Jason.

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:02:37 +0000

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By: Harrison

Harrison — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:54:18 +0000

@Chris — I worked around that problem and the output for /etc/fstab now reads:

LABEL=Untitled none ntfs rw,noauto 0 0

unfortunately the disk still loads at startup and I truly loathe my startup time on leopard.

By: Chris Brewer

Chris Brewer — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:56:35 +0000

@Harrison,

Looks like you skipped step 2, which opens up a new file where the text string “LABEL…” is stored.

By: Harrison

Harrison — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:52:11 +0000

I can’t seem to get this working with Leopard: The error message I get after typing in the

LABEL=WINDOWS none ntfs rw,noauto 0 0

is -bash: none: command not found.

By: Chris Brewer

Chris Brewer — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:17:13 +0000

@WildPalms: VMWare did the same to me. It must be mounting the bootcamp partition in order to access it. I access the bootcamp partition via VMWare, so that makes sense.

By: WildPalms

WildPalms — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:46:41 +0000

This is not working for some reason on Leopard. It worked for maybe 2 weeks, then the Windows partition started appearing on the desktop again. I have recently intalled VMware Fusion so I’m wondering if Fusion is loading a driver or extension at boot time that is causing the Windows partition to mount?

Ideas anyone?