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Authored by: vonleigh on Oct 11, '02 10:07:28PM

1. How does this work exactly? I see that you delete the folders and then make them again and change permissions. How do you actually get it to 'alias' to the new volumes?

2. What are you telling fstab? What do those "labels" mean? I checked man fstab and I got the rw, but that's about it.


thanks,
Vonleigh



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Authored by: Numbski on Oct 12, '02 10:12:15AM

I guess I need to be more clear about something.

Those bottom two scripts should ONLY be used if you are attempting this under 10.1 or before. 10.2 you use fstab.

fstab is now, instead of looking at slices (/dev/rdisk1 type stuff) it is now looking at Volume labels. You named the volume when you ran the disk tool. If you named the slice "Applications", that's its label.

You are then, effectively telling fstab where to mount the slices based on it's volume label.

Previous to 10.2 you could not do this, therefore you tell fstab nothing, and use the scripts instead.



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