Subject: Re: hide ext2 partition from macos 9?
From: Andrew Stout (astout2@swarthmore.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 01:03:54 MST
Use Mac's Drive Setup (on your MacOS system disk, if not on your hard
drive). Select the disk in question, then go to the Functions menu
and select Volume Settings. Then pick your newly-ext2
partition(volume) and uncheck the "automount at bootup" box. If the
partition is on the same disk as your Mac's start-up volume, you
might have to boot off the CD--not sure.
--Andrew
>Well, this is a Mac OS 9 question but relates to YDL.
>
> I have 2 IDE ATA drives. My Primary drive contains just applications and
>(operating systems). My Secondary drive contains just data. I have 7
>partitions on the secondary drive all are HFS+.
>
>My problem is i recently changed one of the partitions from HFS+ to ext2,
>the problem is now if i boot into macos 9 (yeah, it doesn't happen much now,
>but it still happens) it complains that it can't read that partition and
>prompts me to initialize it (or cancel). Well if i cancel, mac starts up
>fine and see's all the other partitions, no problem. I know that macos can't
>use that partiton, i don't want it to! -
>
>How can i hide it so mac doesn't even see it? unmount? hide? why does it see
>it at all? it shouldn't. it can't read it.
>
>It is a real pain to have the prompt if i boot into macos9, (not to mention,
>if someone else is using my computer and accidentally chooses "initialize"
>all the data on that partition is toast : - ( that would not make me, or
>Linux, very happy. Any ideas?
>
>-thanks for your help
>
>-david
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