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.