In article <lcej62jul0.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Douglas Alan <doug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
Disk labels are not unique and it's possible to mount two volumes with
the same name. However, the newer GUID scheme is unique and I think I
read, but can't recall where, that the GUID could be used to specify the
device in a mount command.
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