Re: using mount

• Subject: Re: using mount
• From: Eric Peyton <email@hidden>
• Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:57:25 -0600

On 30-03-2002 13:57, "Eric Peyton" <email@hidden> wrote:

mount and umount work fine in single user mode with HFS(+) you just need
to make sure you are using mount_hfs or mount -t hfs.

I tried that... It never worked for me until I figured out that
autodiskmountd must be running first. Then everything worked. Are you
positive about trying this in single user mode?

Basically I just had to type
autodiskmountd&.

OS X versus Darwin.. I am not sure what differences there
might be.

( Sigh.. What is it about inetd that every developer seems intent on
avoiding its use? )

inetd would not be appropriate for autodiskmount usage in any way.
autodiskmount is not socket based, needs to be running at all time
because it communicates directly with IOKit messaging and needs to be
available to read from the kit on startup without anyone "messaging" it.

This seems to be true for hfs.util as well. I see. Hmmmm... And IOKit
messaging uses what IPC mechanism?

Or does it just take advantage of the
fact that threads are really just object-based shared memory?

Thanks!

Its a different story with HFS+. The only "disk" I wish to see in the
finder is root. The rest I access from root via links. I would like to tell
autodiskmount to not automatically mount disks in /Volumes.

This will be supported at some time. But if this is really what you
want - why don't you just shut autodiskmount off (in the Disks startup
item). NO secondary disks will mount until you explicitly mount them by
hand.

Yes, but then fstab won't work either.. I tried that..

Again from what I've
observed and experienced it must run in order to use mount -t hfs,
mount_hfs, and PC FAT file systems. Is there any way we can verify that
mount -t hfs does not require autodiskmount?

Have you filed a bug. I have tested huge numbers of partitions and this
has never been an issue.

Don't know how to file a bug.

I haven't learned that secret yet. I also
mount /library, /applications, /var, and /users separately..

Had /system as
well but that made the update process and installing even flakier.. And I
had to "trick" the system.... Not a good thing in the long run..

Right now I am having problems with iTunes. I have multiple boot partitions
(3 including CLASSIC). It doesn't like that.

Um - on one machine I have had up to 6 boot partitions and never had a
problem with arbitration ...

I have two OS X boot partitions. Did you try that? One is ufs and the other
is hfs.

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