This Mac-formatted drive does not function properly on my Ubuntu computer as it has the HFS+ file system. Unfortunately I cannot try your solution at the present time. Once you put the line from my blog into your fstab file then every time your computer detects your My Book coming online it will automatically not mount the WD SmartWare virtual CD and you can go about enjoying your big external hard drive If beside TYPE= you see "hfs" then put that in place of udf in the fstab line.
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I can live with the WD SmartWare for Mac (it doesn't actually hurt anything) - but if someone knows how to safely remove it from the drive and would post the answer here, I would be grateful.Ĭode: /dev/sr1: LABEL="WD SmartWare" TYPE="udf"If you get the exact same output then you can literally copy the fstab line from my blog word for word. Now it's easy enough to just unmount that WD SmartWare drive every time it appears (or just ignore it altogether) but I wonder if someone has figured out a way to remove it completely (and possibly free up the space, though that's not too important as the main drive shows 930 GB free). One is, of course, the main hard drive itself, and the other is that WD SmartWare (for Mac) which I understand is built into the firmware.
Whenever I attach the drive to my Acer Extensa 5620-6419 computer (on which I have Ubuntu 9.10 installed I use Ubuntu exclusively), two drives appear on the desktop. This particular hard drive has the Mac-specific WD SmartWare installed. It's a very long story, but the gist is I have a Western Digital My Book Studio 1 TB External Hard Drive.