I am looking for advice on the best way to partition my OS X systems. I
have been maintaining Solaris systems for years and always partition off
user homes, date, root, etc.. I am relatively new to OS X and so far it
appears that the Apple way is a single partition. Also, if multiple
partitions are being used as a defacto standard, are y'all using static
fstab, or is there a more eloquent Apple method for mounting multiple
partitions?
Partitions get mounted automatically to /Volumes/somevolumename by
the system. Only if you want to mount them to a specific mountpoint
do you need to specify anything in fstab.
There is an obvious advantage to splitting off the system and
applications against user $HOMES and data (which is more ephemeral.)
Other than this, the common reasons you see fstabs on other platforms
don't exist on Mac OS X since the system manages mounting for you.
You only need to specify things if you don't like volumes being
mounted in /Volumes. If you do want that I'd recommend using fstabs
since this is accomplished very early on in rc. The other, more
"Mac-ish" way is using a NetInfo record. Either work.
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-dhan
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