[G4] Join Two HFS Volumes?

[Alex]

On Jun 28, 2005, at 10:29, Carlos wrote:

> if I could figure out how it gets mounted at startup, I'd do that.

Two different issues, (1) mount in a specific node, and (2) do it at  
startup.

For (1) -- note it's similar, but not the same as DOS join --

First, get the disk identifier:

$ diskutil list | grep "<volume_name>"

or even

$ diskutil list | sed -n  
's/\(.*\)\(<volume_name>\)\(.*\)\(disk\)\(.*\)/\4\5/p'

(which should extract the identifier only), and then mount it

$ sudo mount_hfs /dev/<identifier> <path_name>

Note that all items that were in <path_name> prior to mounting  
<volume_name> will be hidden, so don't do something silly, like  
mounting in ~. The principle is explained here

<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disk- 
organization.html>

but you really have to read and understand the options for mount and  
mount_hfs.

As to (2), I don't think that automount is the right tool (my  
understanding is that it's for network FSs only, not local FSs). I'd  
try to do it by calling mount in the /etc/rc script, or by an entry in  
/etc/fstab, or by a script in /Library/StartupItems. For several  
reasons, I'd use the latter.

But I don't understand what advantage this would provide over the  
default mount point /Volumes.


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