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How to prevent auto mounting of a ReFS volume in macOS Sequoia?

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I have a macOS/Windows-bootable Mac Pro. Two internal HDDs form a mirror disk formatted in ReFS. How do I prevent macOS Sequoia from nagging me to initialize/eject/ignore those two HDDs each time I start up the machine under macOS? I understand I can do that by adding the
/etc/fstab
file in the following format:
=F21AD81B-B114-456C-B2A0-BF4452E4842D none auto rw,noauto
However, I cannot find the volume UUIDs of those two **unmounted** HDDs in Sequoia. (Disk Utility only shows the volume UUID of mounted disks.) Here is what
info
gives me on one of those two HDDs: ``` Device Identifier: disk7 Device Node: /dev/disk7 Whole: Yes Part of Whole: disk7 Device / Media Name: ST22000NM001E-3HM103 Volume Name: Not applicable (no file system) Mounted: Not applicable (no file system) File System: None Content (IOContent): GUID_partition_scheme OS Can Be Installed: No Media Type: Generic Protocol: SATA SMART Status: Verified Disk Size: 22.0 TB (22000969973760 Bytes) (exactly 42970644480 512-Byte-Units) Device Block Size: 512 Bytes Media OS Use Only: No Media Read-Only: No Volume Read-Only: Not applicable (no file system) Device Location: Internal Removable Media: Fixed Solid State: No Virtual: No Hardware AES Support: No Device Location: "SATA2"
Asked by a196g1 (1 rep)
Nov 3, 2024, 02:09 PM
Last activity: Aug 1, 2025, 10:09 PM