zit <ttrtilley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> On Jul 4, 3:18 am, Douglas Alan <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Does anyone know if there is a way of mounting an external drive under
>> OS X so that it is considered non-removable by OS X?
>
> Back in the day, one used "mount".
I've been using automounters with Unix for like two decades now.
(More with NFS than hard drives, but also with CD-ROMs and the like.)
The automounter has always behaved fine with regard to the issue I
have mentioned. In any case, using "mount" explicitly doesn't make
the problem any better. I've tried that.
> I haven't used it since automounting became more convenient.
> iTunes does really freak out when it looses an automounted drive.
> I just do rm this and mv that in /Volumes, and reboot.
Yeah, that works. Unfortunately doing that every day really bites.
> I recall an external boot drive getting unplugged in the past. This
> was not pretty. You suggest that plugging it back in would have
> fixed it??
No, I've tried that and it doesn't fix the problem. I haven't tried
it on a boot drive yet. I'll try it and get back to you on what
happens.
I've done the equivalent many times with BSD, Linux, and Solaris with
NFS filesystems, and Unix always recovers without any problems
whatsoever, as long as the filesystem is mounted "hard". If it's
mounted "soft", then the OS recovers fine, but applications may be
made very unhappy. Not usually as unhappy as iTunes, however, as they
can typically be fixed by quitting and restarting the program. A
reboot is not necessary. In any case, it's standard operating
procedure with NFS to mount "hard" so that you never end up with this
problem.
> I would not boot a laptop from an external drive on a regular basis.
Why not? I can't keep my iTunes library on it otherwise. Though in
this case, it's not a laptop, but rather a mini.
|>oug
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