Not activating external partition when plugging usb disk
hi,
I have an external USB drive containing two partitions: is there a way to choose which partitions to mount (and which not to mount) at the moment of plugging the external drive in the mac's usb port?
I was thinking maybe there's some keyboard shortcut that prompts for “which partition(s) do you want to mount on the desktop”, but maybe there's not such thing...
thanks in advance, ciao!
you can easily configure your own mac not to auto mount a partition on a particular external drive. but it won't help you with other macs. they will mount everything by default. if you have some privacy issues use encryption and put the sensitive data you may want to keep on that partition inside an encrypted disk image. you can make one with disk utility.
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