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

[Kerem B Limon]

I've already done that in AppleScript and a shell script, but it's quite not
"the right solution", if you know what I mean. I'd rather figure out how the
mount subsystem works and hack that, but I'd like to avoid having to wade
through pages of ADC documentation right now.

-Kerem


Quoting Timothy Boyden <trboyden at MIT.EDU>:

> 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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Kerem B. Limon
kerem.limon at mit.edu /e-mail