Comments on: Keeping unused hard disks unmounted http://adam.merrifield.ca/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/ the collective thoughts and web works of adam merrifield Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:03:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: seyDoggy http://adam.merrifield.ca/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/comment-page-1/#comment-782 seyDoggy Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:30:32 +0000 http://www.seydoggy.com/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/#comment-782 <p>@Thomas, glad this helped.</p> @Thomas, glad this helped.

]]> By: Thomas Bateman http://adam.merrifield.ca/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/comment-page-1/#comment-781 Thomas Bateman Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:52:21 +0000 http://www.seydoggy.com/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/#comment-781 <p>This was driving me freakin' nuts! I too was lost in the sea of crap offered up by Google's search results. In fact, I found this page a more obscure way.</p> <p>I Google Image searched "fstab osx" and randomly clicked on one of the thumbnails to see an example of how an fstab file was supposed to look, and it happened to be the last picture from this blog entry, leading me here.</p> <p>I needed this because of my dual-booting MSI Wind, running XP and OS X, and for some reason the slipstream install partition (which I decided to keep in the event of kernel panics) kept coming up as damaged each boot up. That message ruins the elegance that OS X is supposed to be about.</p> <p>The only difference was putting "ntfs" in place of "hfs" to auto-unmount the XP partition, which I wouldn't've thought to do if not for the footnotes, so I appreciated those.</p> <p>Anyway, thanks a ton for going through the tedium so I could keep my sanity.</p> This was driving me freakin’ nuts! I too was lost in the sea of crap offered up by Google’s search results. In fact, I found this page a more obscure way.

I Google Image searched “fstab osx” and randomly clicked on one of the thumbnails to see an example of how an fstab file was supposed to look, and it happened to be the last picture from this blog entry, leading me here.

I needed this because of my dual-booting MSI Wind, running XP and OS X, and for some reason the slipstream install partition (which I decided to keep in the event of kernel panics) kept coming up as damaged each boot up. That message ruins the elegance that OS X is supposed to be about.

The only difference was putting “ntfs” in place of “hfs” to auto-unmount the XP partition, which I wouldn’t've thought to do if not for the footnotes, so I appreciated those.

Anyway, thanks a ton for going through the tedium so I could keep my sanity.

]]> By: seyDoggy http://adam.merrifield.ca/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/comment-page-1/#comment-780 seyDoggy Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:07:38 +0000 http://www.seydoggy.com/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/#comment-780 <p>@JB you can potentially use the Disk Identifier (i.e. disk1s2) or perhaps even the mount point but the trouble is both of these can change at random where the UUID cannot.</p> <p>What sort of volume do you have without a UUID?</p> @JB you can potentially use the Disk Identifier (i.e. disk1s2) or perhaps even the mount point but the trouble is both of these can change at random where the UUID cannot.

What sort of volume do you have without a UUID?

]]> By: JB http://adam.merrifield.ca/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/comment-page-1/#comment-779 JB Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:45:20 +0000 http://www.seydoggy.com/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/#comment-779 <p>Is there a similar way to do this for volumes on a disk. The volume itself does not have a UUID, can 'Sudo Pico' work with another form of identification?</p> Is there a similar way to do this for volumes on a disk. The volume itself does not have a UUID, can ‘Sudo Pico’ work with another form of identification?

]]> By: Glenn Thomas http://adam.merrifield.ca/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/comment-page-1/#comment-778 Glenn Thomas Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:04:00 +0000 http://www.seydoggy.com/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/#comment-778 <p>Thanks Adam this is great information to have. Thank You!</p> Thanks Adam this is great information to have. Thank You!

]]> By: seyDoggy Web and Graphic Design - seyDoggy weblog - my thoughts on the web and the mac http://adam.merrifield.ca/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/comment-page-1/#comment-777 seyDoggy Web and Graphic Design - seyDoggy weblog - my thoughts on the web and the mac Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:25:44 +0000 http://www.seydoggy.com/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/#comment-777 <p>[...] this month you might recall the solution I gave you for keeping unused volumes unmounted on your mac. The next part of the equation, automatically mounting those volumes when needed to run [...]</p> [...] this month you might recall the solution I gave you for keeping unused volumes unmounted on your mac. The next part of the equation, automatically mounting those volumes when needed to run [...]

]]> By: Larry Pollock http://adam.merrifield.ca/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/comment-page-1/#comment-776 Larry Pollock Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:52:23 +0000 http://www.seydoggy.com/2009/02/12/keeping-unused-hard-disks-unmounted/#comment-776 <p>Nice Adam. This is an area I have not spent much time in, the Console. I am planing on adding more drives this year and it is good to know this information. Thanks for taking the time to write it up with screenshots. :)</p> Nice Adam. This is an area I have not spent much time in, the Console. I am planing on adding more drives this year and it is good to know this information. Thanks for taking the time to write it up with screenshots. :)

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