[X4U] Re: Tiger applescript to remove drives

[David Ledger]

>From: Stroller <MacMonster at myrealbox.com>
>
>On Jul 8, 2005, at 5:10 am, Timothy Luoma wrote:
>>
>>  I believe that the proper way to do this would be to edit /etc/fstab
>>  with the 'ignore'
>
>Nope. Darwin mostly ignores /etc/fstab, apart from initial booting of
>the system drive, I think. Certainly additional volumes aren't listed
>there - they're all mounted automagically by another part of Mac OS X,
>and that's why the OP needs to then unmount them.
>
>Stroller.

In fact my 10.4.1 doesn't even _have_ an /etc/fstab.

David


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