I've done some hefty googling and here's a list of things I've tried so far: What I'd prefer is some way to prevent the NTFS volume from auto-mounting altogether. The thing is that to remove the disk you have to eject the volume and in this case do it for both volumes, which causes an annoying warning dialog to be shown every time. So what happens is that whenever I plug in the disk into my Mac USB, OSX goes off and mounts both volumes and shows an icon on the desktop for each. The other, an NTFS volume that I use for general file copying etc on Mac and Windows boxes.
One is an HFS+ volume which I use for TimeMachine backups. I'm a bit newbieish when it comes to the deeper parts of OSX configuration and am having to put up with a fairly irritating niggle which while I can put up with it, I know under Windows I could have sorted in minutes.īasically, I have an external disk with two volumes:
