Mount Certain Partitions at Login?

[JustGretchen]

Is there any way to make certain partitions on a given external volume not mount at system startup or login?

My bootable backup drive has an install partition for 10.6 and 10.7 that I really do not need to mount at login.

Ideas? Terminal commands? Etc...?

Thanks

 

[satcomer]

Just go to System Preferences->Users & Groups pane and in there select the affected users mini-tab 'Login Items' and select which programs you want at startup.

 

[Jacen]

No help

@satcomer ... Um, I dont think that answer even touches at the problem. I dont see how changing your startup programs affects what partitions mount, unless of course one of those is a script like gretchen is asking.

 

[smirk]

Would chflags hidden work?
http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/06/hide-folders-mac/

You'd do it on /Volumes/x, where x = the name of the partition. It will still mount, but it shouldn't show. Not sure what affect this will have on the partition when you're actually booting from it, though.