Mounting HDs as folders

[henrys]

strobe:

Why do you think multiple partitions wastes space? Generally the smaller the partition, the smaller the block size (ok, ok, not as much of an issue with HFS+ & UFS, but still...).

Also, I use multiple partitions (well, not THAT many) to segregate OS X & 9 - that way if I have to upgrade/reinstall X, it doesn't affect my 9 partition. That's also where I keep my home directory (and then build a symlink under /Users to it). It's been pretty handy since after a reinstall, a bit of user tweaking, and boom, all my wonderful preferences are right there.

Just wondering...

[xjamesx]

I hope you don't want people to have access to these hd's via appletalk.

check it-
http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthr...?threadid=2463

[henrys]

Yeah, I know (sigh), it's a pain, but only because not everyone has the same setup. If you had a series of NFS mounts that were uniform (say in a large NetInfo environment), then the links work just fine. They just need to include the full hostname and path (i.e. MyFile links to /Network/Servers/dude/Shared/myfile.doc).