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I am an absolute newbie with Ubuntu. Would be happy if somebody could help me here. I have a windows 8 pc with several internal hard drives. I managed to install Ubuntu 13.10 on one of those drives, by clicking on "something else" during the installation process. I start Ubuntu in the BIOS during boot by pushing F8 (Asus mainboard), which allows me to select the drive from which to boot. (Default is windows 8, which is fine with me).

So here is my question. When in Ubuntu, I can see my other drives. Is there a way to make the drives "disappear"? I mean so that Ubuntu does not even know that they exist? Of course I still need the drives fully funtional on the windows side. Would be great if this would be possible.

Thanks for your help in advance! mark

mark
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Mark, I had some account issues and had to make a new one. Just add these lines to /etc/crontab. You must be COMPLETELY sure that Ubuntu is installed on that ST3.. drive, otherwise your Ubuntu installation will be broken. 

@reboot root umount /dev/sda1
@reboot root umount /dev/sdh1
@reboot root umount /dev/sdi1

On the bright side..I don't think Ubuntu would allow you to unmount the root partition..but I haven't had the opportunity to test that theory haha. Please respond if not all of the drives disappear, then we will need to do some further investigation into their partition numbers.

David Bruneau
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