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

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?

By: Dump Administrator

Dump Administrator — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:20:16 +0000

Note to Readers: I’ve updated this article to more succinctly explain how to unmount both NTFS and FAT32 volumes, using the disk’s label (name) instead of the overly complex UUID.

By: James

James — Sun, 13 May 2007 04:28:30 +0000

What if your bootcamp volume is FAT32? How does the syntax change in your suggested solution? Will the UUID even show up on the disk util terminal command if it is fat32?