I followed Nick & Ben's directions, and I was successful in mounting a partition on another hard drive as /User in 10.1.2.

My question: is there a way to mount a subfolder on that drive, so that I could organize the user folders together instead of them being at the root level of the drive?

As a UNIX newbie I do not know what would be involved...

You can make your mount point wherever you want. All you have to do is change the arguments in the 'mount' command to point to that directory.

The line I am using in my library/startupitems/disks/disks file is:

mount -t hfs /dev/disk1s9 /Users

Which works fine as long as all users folders are at the root level of the drive.

There doesn't seem to be a way to add subfolders past the /dev/disk1s9/ which specifies a device. If I do, I get an error on startup (verbose mode) and it doesn't mount.

Any ideas?