Sorry for the delay but it's still there. It's not shown on the desktop anymore but it's still mounted: $ mount
/dev/sda12 on /media/bootstrap type hfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000) I'm not sure it's the right place but in : /usr/share/hal/scripts/hal-system-storage-mount pmount is called before the test of $HAL_PROP_VOLUME_IGNORE -- External disks PPC bootstrap partition are automounted https://launchpad.net/bugs/61767 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs