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How do I prevent a disk from mounting?

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Mar 15, 202610733 views
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I own an Iomega Prestige. The disk series includes a Virtual CD partition that includes a file encryption utility that can only be used on a Windows machine. Every time I mount the external drive to my filesystem, the Virtual CD partition mounts right along with it. I'd like to prevent the Virtual …

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/etc/fstab

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Keep the following program running at all times in the background, e.g. by auto starting using : Find out the UUID of the volume you don't want to mount using (to get the device name) and to read the UUID. Save as main.c and compile using the follow…

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