Can I boot WITHOUT mounting an internal drive?

[Mr Skills]

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 🙂

 

[MrT8064]

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

 

[moutian]

It seems we can only manually dismount after each boot.

 

[Mr Skills]

Shame. This would be really useful for me.

🙁

 

[richard.mac]

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

hdiutil unmount /Volumes/[I]name of disk[/I]

 

[Mr Skills]

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?

 

[Fearless Leader]

if its not mounted its still spinning and running isnt it?

 

[PlaceofDis]

if its not mounted its still spinning and running isnt it?

i would think that it's spin down and park heads since it needs to be mounted before it can be accessed.