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Disable unwanted partition on USB stick
I have a "SanDisk Cruzer" USB memory stick, which contains two filesystems: the normal read/write filesystem, and a read-only ISO-9660 filesystem containing useless Windows software. The second filesystem appeared as a CD-ROM icon!
Both partitions needed to be unmounted (or ejected) before unplugging the USB stick to avoid an error message, although no harm could come of not ejecting the ISO-9660 filesystem. It was just a nuisance. However, this hint showed how to avoid it being mounted at all. There was no UUID, so I used the volume name ("U3 System" in my case) and created a one-line /etc/fstab file containing:
Note that the space in the volume name needs to be given in octal.
Disable unwanted partition on USB stick
I also have a "u3 system" partition (which looks to the system like a cd) on my sandisk cruzer. (what's it for, anyway? windoz doesn't seem to use it either)
I'm not getting an error, but it would be nice if I could have it never mount. I'm fairly new to terminal use... could you elaborate on what you did?
- That's /etc/ on the boot disk, right? Is there any way to have this travel with the stick drive?
Disable unwanted partition on USB stick
The idea is that you can put (U3-supporting) programs on it along with their settings. For example, you'd always have Firefox and all your bookmarks available, on whichever computer you happen to be using. It's annoyingly hard to get rid of – even reformatting the drive didn't work on mine. Fortunately, SanDisk does allow you to remove it. Unfortunately, it uses a Windows program.
http://www.sandisk.com/DriverDownload/index.asp While it says it's a driver search, the uninstaller is one of the options. They try to make you register for spam, but there is a link to bypass it at the bottom.
Disable unwanted partition on USB stick
There is a Mac utility to remove the stupid U3 partition: |
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