[Macpartners] Hiding Mac OS X volumes selectively...?

[Timothy Boyden]

Would running a script to unmount them as a startup item be too much of 
a kludge?

Tim Boyden
MIT Department of Facilities
IT Support & Training Group

Kerem B Limon wrote:

>I've Google'd and searched the usual Mac forums, sites, etc. Before I post to
>somewhere else, anyone know of a way to selectively hide mounted volumes under
>Mac OS X?
>
>Under Mac OS Classic, you could do this using Drive Setup and checking a setting
>that told the drive not to mount at startup and it would not show up on the
>Desktop. I assume it flipped a bit in the mount list for that OS and/or
>something in the partition table or boot sector of the partition. I don't see
>something like this in Disk Utility.
>
>Mac OS X seems to have /etc/fstab, but as with everything else, this seems to
>differ somewhat from typical UNIX/Linux/BSD (in fact, everything on mine are
>commented out there and identical across machines).
>
>Kerem B. Limon
>kerem.limon at mit.edu /e-mail
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