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

[Albert Willis]

On May 31, 2005, at 10:47 AM, 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

There's a hint over at macosxhints.com that describes what to do.  
When you install the Developer Tools,  two utilities are added in  
the /Developer/Tools directory: GetFileInfo and SetFile. You can use  
SetFile to change the visibility of a volume.

More info at http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? 
story=20011018172352562

   -- Al

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Albert Willis
Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
awillis at mit.edu

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