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Mathias Koerber  
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 More options Oct 2 2008, 12:34 am
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From: Mathias Koerber <math...@koerber.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:34:52 +0800
Local: Thurs, Oct 2 2008 12:34 am
Subject: Re: prevent volume from automounting
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Fred Moore wrote:
>> http://www.macgeekery.com/gspot/2005-12/hiding_partitions

> Thanks! Great tip. Do you know for sure this works with 10.5? This was
> the last question on the linked page, but it was unanswered (and the OP
> is running 10.5). I don't want to try this on 10.5 and have the whole
> system go buggerup.

Thanks, but this does not seem to work on Leopard.

1. the UUID (at least on my USB stick) seems to change every time I
insert it:

> Oct  2 00:02:26 vadeMACum fseventsd[28]: log dir: /Volumes/MK E180 USD/.fseventsd getting new uuid: D2643848-6689-4BB8-8EE6-C07089B9666A
> Oct  2 00:09:17 vadeMACum fseventsd[28]: log dir: /Volumes/MK E180 USD/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 17787A5D-B116-4093-A5E5-C2D79795A765
> Oct  2 00:17:10 vadeMACum fseventsd[28]: log dir: /Volumes/MK E180 USD/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 21D2B8F1-02B1-4E4B-A9D0-76A3195F749C

Note that there does not seem to be any UUID assigned for the 'Mobile
Partner' read-only hfs volume on the same stick :-(

I also notice that I have no 'diskarbitrationd' log messages

> vadeMACum:~ mathias$ sudo ps axu | grep arb
> mathias  15844   0.8  0.0    75452    380 s007  S+   12:26PM   0:00.00 grep arb
> root        33   0.0  0.0    75460   1316   ??  Ss   Mon05PM   0:03.65 /usr/sbin/diskarbitrationd
> root        28   0.0  0.0    99704   1832   ??  Ss   Mon05PM   1:07.32 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Car bonCore.framework/Versions/A/Support/fseventsd

I then tried this:

> vadeMACum:~ mathias$ cat /etc/fstab
> LABEL=MK\040E180\040USD none    msdos   rw,noauto
> LABEL=Mobile\040Partner none    hfs     noauto

which seems to have done the trick..

(Note the use of \040 for spaces !!
 Quoting like so: LABEL="Mobile Parter" won't work!)

After this however the  Disk Utility no longer shows the 'Mobile
Partner' read-only hfs device, so I need to find a way to mount it by
hand if I really need it. mount(8) does not seems to have an option to
specify a volume by label.

M


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