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Old 11-08-2009, 08:41 PM   #1
mens sana
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Question Hiding USB NTFS partition on Desktop (SL)

Using a brand new Macbook pro 2.8 (which is absolutely awesome!) with Snow Leopard and Windows 7 (for a week now) via Bootcamp.
Also, I activated write permission to NTFS partitions using teh fstab entries

I also use many external drives, mostly USB, some being FAT, some others NTFS, some others HFS+...

My problem being the following :

My WD USB2 500GB HD has 2 partitions on it :
  1. an HFS+ used for Time Machine (350GB)
  2. an NTFS used for System Recovery (150GB)
I've hidden the Time Machine using SetFile -a V /Volumes/Time\ Machine
But yet I haven't found a way to hide the /Volumes/Recovery one which is the second USB partition
In fact, I am still able to access the hidden HFS+ with CMD+Shft+G and also unmount the disk using disktool -e in an app'd AppleScript

Is there a way then, to hide a specific NTFS partition from an external USB HD from the Finder sidebar and/or the Desktop like I did using SetFile?
Yet I've tried using SetFile and chflags
Also, tried to create a folder with usual mount point in /Volumes/

Any cue or tip would be much appreciated...
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