>  > >On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Steve Rader wrote:
 >  > >Another low-tech solution: skip /Volumes and notify users that
 >  > >1) stuff mounted in /Volumes won't be backed up and thus 2)
 >  > >file systems they care about should be mounted elsewere.

 >  > From: Stan Horwitz
 >  > When an external disk drive is plugged into a Mac OS X system, it auto
 >  > mounts under the /Volumes directory. Is there a way to change that
 >  > behavior so it automounts under another directory?

 > From: Steve Rader
 > I haven't played with OSX's automounter, but the doc looks
 > encouraging...
 >
 >  http://www.opendarwin.org/documentation/automount.php
 >
 > I just tried my iPod--OSX didn't leave it mounted.  (Which makes
 > me wonder about the two times I've seen NetWorker backing up
 > an iPod!?!  Maybe it's 10.2 vs 10.3 thing.)

Sorry.  I was wrong.  "automount" is an NFS-only thing.

"autodiskmount" is the daemon that mounts (non-nfs) file systems
and it seems to use /etc/fstab in a reasonable manner.  See
"man autodiskmount".

steve
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systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin

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