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Re: Help! drives not showing up in /Volumes

Thanx for the explanation..

Hmm, Is this something that File System Journaling would prevent? Or does
journaling only cover interrupted file system read/write processes?

any thoughts?


-murdza




> From: "Jason Deraleau" <email@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:28:59 -0500
> To: "Michael Murdza" <email@hidden>
> Cc: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Help! drives not showing up in /Volumes
>
>> Thanx,
>>
>> a lot!
>>
>> that was weird.. Any idea why it would mix up the drive mapping like
> that?
>>
>> either way, thanx//
>>
>> murdza
>
> It has to do with the way the rc files handle mounting partitions. It's not
> really done through /etc/fstab like on most Unices, instead a daemon handles
> the mounts. If there is a directory in /Volumes of the same name as what
> you're trying to mount, the daemon will create a folder with the same name
> and then a number 1. So if I'm trying to mount my FireWire drive which has a
> volume name of "taco" and a directory called "taco" exists in /Volumes
> already, the automount daemon will mount the partition on "/Volumes/taco 1".
> When you shutdown your machine, the automount daemon unmounts these
> partitions and then removes the folder. Since your power went out, the
> daemon didn't unmount them properly so the folders still existed.
>
> --
> Jason Deraleau
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