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Partitioning HD for Windows and Mac

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Slowstick

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I have a 500GB external hard drive. I would like a 250GB FAT32 Partition for Windows on boot camp and a 250GB Mac OS extended partition for TM. However, I don't want OS X to recognize the FAT32 partition when I plug it in. How would I do that?

Thanks!!
 
In windows, rename the drive and put a period in front of the name, eg .windrive.

It will then not show up on the OSX desktop, if that's what you are asking.
 
Or if your feeling a little adventurous and want the drive to actually not be mounted at all... you can create an fstab file in /etc and keep it from being mounted on bootup....

Just put this line in /etc/fstab

LABEL=VOLNAME none fat32 rw,noauto 0 0

Where VOLNAME is the name of your windows volume

If you format or change the format of your windows partition to NTFS, just substitute NTFS for fat32 in the line above.

Hope that helps.... 🙂
 
Tom Sawyer said:
Or if your feeling a little adventurous and want the drive to actually not be mounted at all... you can create an fstab file in /etc and keep it from being mounted on bootup....

Just put this line in /etc/fstab

LABEL=VOLNAME none fat32 rw,noauto 0 0

Where VOLNAME is the name of your windows volume

If you format or change the format of your windows partition to NTFS, just substitute NTFS for fat32 in the line above.

Hope that helps.... 🙂
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I tried this out....it took a few tries...but it works sooooo much better with my setup. Thanks!!!!!!
 
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