well I can only think that that is the cause, can you not use the partition name, I think someone suggested that in this thread.

i could try it thanks for the tip

yeah that'll work for ya bhast. just make sure you don't accidentally rename your partitions at any point otherwise they'll pop up again if you have spaces in the names too, post back in here and i'll let you know how to handle that (i'm blanking at the moment, but i can look it up). good luck.

Oops yep forgot to say FAT32 formatted volumes are not assigned a UUID. You'll have to use LABEL instead of UUID and change the fs type to 'msdos'.

eg. LABEL=WINDOWSXP none msdos rw,noauto 0 0

'WINDOWSXP' is replaced with your drive name.

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Yes, just using labels is much easier to wrap your head around, easier to set and easier to remember. UUID must have some advantages over labels since everything is moving in that direction but I haven't found them yet.

Two things I found out while excluding my Windows partition from mounting. Thought maybe they could be added to the first post so others don't have to go searching?

From Leopard on you need to use vifs to create and edit /etc/fstab, or at least you should.
Also, you might find that /etc/fstab is ignored and your partition still mounts. Two things to try

Instead of using "none" for the mountpoint use the normal location i.e. /Volumes/WindowsXP along with the ro,noauto options.

Also, MacFUSE/NTFS-3G is awesome, a little slow compared to the normal NTFS-3G but still.

Cheers Dies i didn't know about vifs. Guide updated.

Well, nice tutorial but it took me a while to get vifs to do what i wanted.
I had no idea of the commands used in the vi(fs) editor. Google helped

But maybe you could add the 3 commands for vi in your tut.
"i" for insert mode,
"esc" for switching back to command mode
":wq" for saving

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