--On Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:17:55 -0400 Valerio Luccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By default OS X mounts all of it's disks, except for the OS disk, under > "/Volumes/xxxxx" and if you have more than one disk each time you boot up > the device name of the disks change (using two RAID sets, sometime it > calls the OS disk "/dev/disk4" and the second set "/dev/disk5", some > other times the other way around). I think that this is due to the OS > creating the devices in parallel and, therefore, who ever gets there > first gets the lower number. Add to this the fact that if you mount by > hand the "/vicepa" partition, the information must be correctly contained > in the NetInfo database. Currently I do the following, by hand: find out > the name of my data disk (with mount); unmount the disk from > "/Volumes/vicepa" and remount it in "/vicepa"; delete the current > information from the NetInfo database (using niutil); store the new info > in the NetInfo database (using niload). I'm going to set up the server so > that it does not mount the data disk at boot up and, hopefully, that will > mean that the name will remain constant. Then I'm going to modify the AFS > startup script so that it does the rest automatically. Once I have it > running properly I will send it to OpenAFS to be posted (maybe with a few > lines of installation instructions for the Mac). I haven't done this myself, but I've heard that you *can* use /etc/fstab instead. You need to change the NetInfo database so that it reads /etc/fstab instead of its own settings. -- Sebastian Hagedorn M.A. - RZKR-R1 (Flachbau), Zi. 18, Robert-Koch-Str. 10 Zentrum f�r angewandte Informatik - Universit�tsweiter Service RRZK Universit�t zu K�ln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587
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