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Authored by: a1291762 on Mar 04, '03 05:14:11PM

Since fstab doesn't work as a Unix admin would expect, Apple needs to provide a method of configuring mounts from their GUI.

All I really want to do is add a /dev/disk0s10 /Stuff line to my fstab but that doesn't work. Actually, since I have 10.1 fstab doesn't work at all. The Label=blah that 10.2 has isn't really an improvement.

I actually preferred the Public Beta's mounting drives in / since it made for shorter paths when accessing things from the console.

I think it would be nice if Apple made a folder of /System the root directory (I don't think this can be done presently). That way, all "volumes" would be mounted in the same way (even the root volume).

eg.
Folder "foo" of volume "Mac OS X" would be /Mac OS X/foo.
Folder "foo" of folder "bar" of volume "stuff" would be /Stuff/bar/foo.
If "Mac OS X" is the system disk, / would be /Mac OS X/System/root.

This puts all "system" files into one folder again. You could do a Finder copy to duplicate your system again! Permissions stuff would need to be handled by the Finder of course, but it would be nice.



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Authored by: recursion on Mar 04, '03 10:41:59PM

actually, that works now too...perhaps it's something I accidentally did, but now my fstab works like that...however, functionality is enhanced if you add a 'mount -v -t hfs -o rw,{options} /dev/disk#s# /mountpoint' in your /etc/rc...also, the previous comments in regards to niload were correct, found that out quickly...as long as you mount the fstab items before autodiskmount arrives, they operate in a traditional UNIX sense....mostly



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