Hiding drives from OSX (not chimera)

[HoochShepherd]

So I've asked this a few times to no avail, but here we go... I have MULTIPLE drives on my computer. 3 SSD's (Win7, ML, MINT) and 3 HDD's (2 in win raid and one with music.) When ever I boot OSX I get 3 pop-ups telling me that it can't mount my Linux drive or either of the 2 win raids. (See attached picture.) Is there any way to get rid of these nagging pop ups so that OSX just doesn't even try to mount them?


Thanx in advance!

 

[Dschijn]

Yes! I will just link an article, because I don't want to explain every detail:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060930150059172

I can confirm, that it works for all my Windows NTFS partitions.

 

[HoochShepherd]

OK, so my big problem is finding the UUID for the win raided drives... I can't get them ANYWHERE!

Even in linux BLKID this is what I get!

adam@adam-System-Product-Name ~ $ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="EFI" UUID="67E3-17ED" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda2: UUID="87a737d4-4b15-3625-a5d6-cf044ac8ecc1" LABEL="Mountain Lion" TYPE="hfsplus"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="3C1EC3441EC2F644" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdd1: LABEL="Media" UUID="2C58722B5871F444" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdf1: UUID="7dd0ea10-0b0c-4fec-84f4-0623dcf6a3e3" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdf2: UUID="81ddef68-3a18-49b4-9d42-ab4c88b2ca2b" TYPE="ext3"
adam@adam-System-Product-Name ~ $

 

[Bob_the_Tomato]

I wonder if you can find the ID using DiskUtil.

In DU, click on the partition you are looking for and click on the Info button. The UUID shows up there also. Just don't click on the Drive itself, you must choose the partition not the drive. I don't have a RAID setup to test this on.

 

[HoochShepherd]

I'm not in front of my computer this second to say for sure, but I don't think it does.. I'm pretty sure I exhausted the routes in osx before I jumped to Linux to look. I'm actually sy starting to think that with the fake raid it didn't assign a uuid. Is there a way to go straight to disabling the ports as a whole from insidenosx so it never even notices something's there??

 

[Dschijn]

You can also do it by the drive name:

LABEL=DriveName none msdos ro

 

[HoochShepherd]

You can also do it by the drive name:

LABEL=DriveName none msdos ro

whoa whoa whoa whoa!!! who how in the what now? How do I do this? I have 2 drives that I'd need to do this with, would it just apply to any unnamed drive?

NM, I didn't read that all the way.. Neither drive has a name or UUID that I can see anywhere. I'm back to thinking I could maybe disable the port they are attached too inside of OSX? No idea how/if I could do that in OSX though.

 

[Dschijn]

You can't disable drives. Maybe that hasn't been clear. You can only hide/unmount partitions!!!!

 

[Bob_the_Tomato]

You can also do it by the drive name:

LABEL=DriveName none msdos ro

He is referring to the Macworld article he linked to in his previous post.

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To find your UUID using DiskUtil use the "Info" button while selecting the PARTITION not the Drive (like in your photo.)
This is mine:



Also - the NAME is shown as well.

/Bob

 

[HoochShepherd]

Yeah, I figured out what he was referring too.. I miss read that as though I could have it not mount anything without a name... My fault, just read it on the fly and got excited...

I'm not trying to hide the drive.. it's just not readable by OSX, so I get a nag screen asking if I want to mount it.. I'm trying to get rid of that. The article was how to prevent it from being mounted with a drive name or UUID, unfortainately these seem to have neither.