Re: Making external drive non-removable

Tom Stiller <tomstiller@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> Or start a shell, cd to /Volumes/drive, and minimize the window.

Alas, that didn't work.  "." disappears randomly and never returns for
that shell.  Though the disk itself *does* get re-automounted, or
something, as the disk is there and mounted by the time I get around
to looking at things.  It just can't be seen via "." using the shell
in question.

I'll try manually mounting, rather than relying on the automounter, to
see if that helps.

|>oug

P.S. Does anyone know if you can mount something explicitly via its
disk label, rather than via its device number?  This is something that
Linux, for example, sup****ts.  I.e., on Linux, you can specify

   LABEL=/MyDrive /mnt ext3fs defaults 1 2

in /etc/fstab, where the "LABEL=/MyDrive" part substitutes for
/dev/disk3s2, or whatever.

When using external drives, who knows what the device name will be
tomorrow, so this is a very useful feature.