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Can I boot WITHOUT mounting an internal drive?

Mr Skills

Mr Skills

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I want to add an extra internal backup drive* to my Mac Pro, but I don't want it to mount on the desktop automatically. I would like to use Disk Utility to mount it only when I am going to backup/restore. Is this possible?

*yes, I am aware of the importance of off-site backup. This is in case of mechanical failure 🙂
 
as far as i know, it is not possible in any easy way, it is quite possible that there is a 3rd party app to manage mounting of disks, or perhaps some applescript
 
you could use automator to make a workflow with a shell scrip that unmounts the disk and add it as a login item. the shell script would be something like

Code: 
hdiutil unmount /Volumes/[I]name of disk[/I]
 
Thanks! 🙂

Will Automator quit automatically after running the action? Would it be easy to put this into something with less overhead - i.e. and AppleScript?
 
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