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It works

It works like a charm. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Jim Reese

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Fantastic! But how about this?

I’ve got an external iomega triple interface. I split it into 2 partitions using pdisk and fdisk. One is Journaled HFS+ and the other is FAT32L. See, the XBOX 360 will allow you to add a USB Mass...

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Fantastic, cont..

Maybe there’s a way to tell it to just not mount any partitions of a certain type or something? I’ve been raking forums all over and I just might end up melting google if I can’t figure this out!

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how to derive UUID in Panther?

diskutil info in Panther doesn’t display any UUID values. How can a Panther user properly obtain that data?-HI-

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panther--

You would use “LABEL=MacintoshHD” and rename your drive to not have spaces. Panther doesn’t have the prolific use of UUIDs that Tiger does, so I’m unsure if it even does this, really.

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Okay thanks. That is weird

Okay thanks. That is weird tho, since Panther seems aware of UUIDs… or, so one might assume — from looking at man uuidgen and man diskarbitrationd. It’s mainly diskutil that seems oblivious. Oh well.

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Not sure if this is still active...

But how would you use this to hide a FAT32 partition on Tiger? Like Panther there’s no UUID, but “LABEL=Name” doesn’t work in the fstab either.In a nutshell, this has become more interesting with all...

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Re: Hiding Partitions

You can also ad a Dot (as “.Windows HD”)at the beginning of your windows partition while ruing windows (mac doesn’t allow it) and “Boom” (eh steve!) you windows drive icon disappears from the desktop....

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Re: Hiding Partitions

The command and the /etc/fstab file – still the same in Leopard, v10.5.x, for this?

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