
Nov 11, '03 10:17:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
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This tells autodiskmount to mount all local volumes at startup regardless of whether they are potentially removable (or whether the user has logged in yet). This was the issue, by the way. Apple decided to mount (potentially) removable volumes only while a user was logged in at the GUI. Users were assuming that removable volumes got unmounted when they logged out, and were causing file system corruption by disconnecting them while they were still live mounted file systems.
This works in Panther. I'm pretty sure that it also works for Jaguar, if this was even an issue. I don't remember anymore since I've been running Panther on my SCSI machine since the developer preview.