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Mac Lion: fstab is deprecated. so what replaces it to prevent a partition from mounting?

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Mar 15, 202693107 views
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If is deprecated in Lion (and before, I think?) how does one, properly, prevent a partition from mounting on system boot? This is loosely related to this question which as of this post has no answer. Edit: So my confusion comes from reading about fstab and being told to edit . So... is what I need …

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$ cat /etc/fstab.hd 
IGNORE THIS FILE.
This file does nothing, contains no useful data, and might go away in
future releases.  Do not depend on this …

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Neither nor (see here for example) mention deprecation of . It's not there by default, but why should it be, if it just were empty because the defaults are good? It's there if you need it. Claims of deprecation of has been floating around the web fo…

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