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Prevent Your NTFS Boot Camp Volume From Mounting on Startup

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Boot CampWhen I switched to mac, I did so with equal amounts excitement and reluctance. I’ve grown familiar with my windows-only software, and as a web designer, it would be irresponsible to completely ditch Windows and IE (as much as I wish I could). Inevitably, I made a Windows XP partition, and came to hate the added clutter on my desktop due to the (NTFS formatted) XP drive showing on my desktop. I have no reason for it to be there, so why would I want it to mount? Sure, you could just unmount it on startup, but that’s just an extra step on startup, and I don’t know about you, but that just makes me feel like I’m back to Windows. Knowing that OS X was based on BSD/UNIX, I knew I had a tool available to me to help clear my desktop: fstab.
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On Apple

Cute. Progressive. Stunning. These are just some of the words used to describe apple and their design aesthetic over the years. Sure, compared to the “beige box” stigma the PC has gotten, they are fantastic pieces of art, just by looking at them. So sleek, so thin, so sexy. But once you get past the $2.50 lucite case, what lies beneath?
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