I take advantage of a large number of exterior drives, most of them with a couple of partition. Many of those drives are continuously re-partitioned and re-formatted for various makes use of.
Sometimes, once I join such a drive, I’m solely inquisitive about one of many partitions, however the Mac’s OSX tries to mount all partitions it could make sense of. I can, after all, then unmount the partitions I don’t need mounted, however I might somewhat positively select the partition(s) I would like mounted, and that the system leaves alone all different partitions. Other than comfort, avoiding automount also needs to maintain the unmounted file programs unchanged (for instance maintain the SHA fingerprint intact) and scale back the chance of knowledge loss by mistake.
I do know that I can disable automount for particular person UUIDs (see e.g. The way to Disable USB Auto-mount). However since I join loads of exterior drives and their UUIDs change, I would like to not name vifs after every media repartition and initialisation and finally muddle /and so forth/fstab with plenty of noauto entries most of that are out of date after some time.
So I’m in search of a system choice to disable automount upon join alltogether as soon as and for all storage media and not using a must individually disable. I might then use finder or diskutil to mount simply the file system situations I select within the explicit scenario.
(Simply to say, the apparent exception to my “no-automount” coverage must be the Mac’s startup disk, which is required for the system to perform.)