You can of course still mount the drive via disk utility and have the full function if you want to. fstab is not currently in osx lion, but if you make one there, it will work in not mounting your drives when you start. From the boot menu, hold Control when you select an option to make it the default going forward. for example, if you're running an ntfs partition, you would type in "ntfs" instead of hfs.īottom line. From macOS, use Startup Disk preferences to set the default. If you have a separate file system other than the mac filesystem, you have to research what type of file system you have to type in place of "hfs". if it doesn't save, make sure you typed in 'sudo' before choosing the file. In nano, hit CTRL+O to save (write out) the new file. So if yours is a mac filesystem, that's all you have to type in your fstab file. This is an example of what it would look like for a filesystem that is hfs (a mac journaled file system) UUID=(your UUID) none (your file system type) rw,noauto So the first thing you do is find your partition's Unique Universal Identifier (UUID.) Do this by opening the disk utility, then clicking on the partition in question first, then info. What you have to do is make a file called just 'fstab' in your etc directory They have a file called fstab.hd, but there's a note in there that says they don't use it anymore. Lion 7.2 for me here, and i figured it out. Re: Prevent FileVault volume from mounting in Lion Surely there's a way of doing this via reprogramming of an attribute in the dscl database somewhere? Damned if I can find anything on this. To explore the Boot Camp Assistant User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page, or enter a word or phrase in the search field. How to install Windows on your older Mac. How to install Windows on your newer Mac. There "might" be a way of doing things with MCX in but i'm unsure as hell of that as well as symlinks. No problemjust install Windows on your Intel-based Mac with Boot Camp. The last partition we'll use for the user account folders so i'd like things to be created there by default. The plan is to use CS to split the drive into three, with a bootcamp partition in the middle ending just before the nasty 2.2Tb limit that Windows imposes. I'm being forced to use CoreStorage because the requirement is to put this on a 3Tb iMac (which we told them NOT to buy) that also needs Bootcamp installed, so I have to get "creative" with my solution here. I've read enough threads on jamfnation to realise that using a symlink will break feu settings when deploying packages. I'm trying to change the default path so that when an account is created, the folder for it appears automatically on another volume instead of in /Users. When you go into the advanced options on a user account, it allows you to change the folder (usually /Users/? ) to something else.